David Stone Libbey
was known to his friends as a great hunter, an observer of wildlife, a terribly-able river driver, a profitable lumberman, and head boatman.
Libbey grew up fishing, hunting and driving logs on
Maine's Penobscot River
and its many tributaries. He also lumbered in Canada, the Adirondacks, and mined in Nevada. The rivers nearly killed him (more than once), he almost froze to death in the north woods, he was shelled during the Civil War, and he was threatened by armed men out west. It seems he had lives enough for a bobcat.
This novel brings the reader to the Maine woods, the southern battle field, and the desert of Death Valley, for adventures with this pioneering man. No matter where his travels took him, he was Penobscot.
* * * * * * In 1907, Maine historian and writer,
Fannie Hardy Eckstorm
, wrote of Libbey, "He was one of Maine's thoroughbred woodsman and waterman, one of the most notable of our hunters; (he went) to the deserts of Nevada, in the seventies (1870s), when it was rough there, where he set up mining machinery and met western bad men, and he unarmed and unruffled made them behave themselves." * * * * * * David Libbey was also a writer and naturalist. He contributed articles to the national outdoorsmen magazines and Maine papers. He often signed his essays, Penobscot. The editor of Forest And Stream, wrote of Libbey:
"Penobscot
knows the Maine country as well as any man living, and what he may write will be sure to be intelligent and authentic." In this historical fiction novel,
Maine Author Tommy Carbone
informs the reader, in an entertaining and captivating way, about this period of history. * * * * * *
Maine Books, History, Author
Outdoor Adventure
Logging, Lumbering, Mining, Civil War