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Adirondack
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Mitchell Sabattis
A number of Native Americans were among the early Adirondack guides, and
Mitchell Sabattis of Long Lake was one of most famous. "Sabattis was short
and slight of stature, but with exceptional strength and endurance," wrote
Ruth Timm, author of North Country Tales, Truths and Trivia. "He was
gentle and unassuming, and unexcelled as a woodsman. Throughout his life he
was an expert guide and his services were regularly sought after." |
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"Old Nessmuk" George Washington Sears
He was a
sportswriter for
Forest and Stream magazine in the
1880s and an early conservationist. His
stories, appearing under the pen name, "Nessmuk" popularized self-guided
canoe camping tours of the
Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo
canoes and what is today called ultralight camping. |
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Asher Winch Asher N Winch was an Upper Jay guide.
Here is Asher with a Lynx which he trapped near Upper Jay sometime near the
year 1917 |
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Chester McCaffery
Chester was a St Regis
Lake guide and worked out of the Paul Smiths Hotel, Upper and Lower Saranac
Lakes and was a member of the Adirondack Guides Association
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Alvah Dunning
known as the Hermit Guide of Raquette
Lake, was a simple man who searched for seclusion and privacy his whole
life," wrote Ruth Timm. "His reputation as an expert woodsman and skilled
hunter made him one of the more popular guides of his time. Sportsmen
traveled from everywhere to meet and be guided by this legendary figure |
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John Burton (far left) and Henry Courtney (far right)
at a bark shanty on T-lake with sports George and Hobe Casler in
Hamilton County, 1899. |
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Orson Schofield "Old Mountain Phelps"
(1817–1905), who cut the first trail up Mount Marcy and named several of the
Adirondack peaks. |
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John Plumbley was Adirondack Murry's guide.
His nickname was "Honest John" His father was one of the first residents of
Long Lake. |
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