Item 6317 - Thomas Steele "discovers" lake near Matagamon Lake, 1879

Item 6317 - Thomas Steele "discovers" lake near Matagamon Lake, 1879
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Item 6317
Thomas Steele "discovers" lake near Matagamon Lake, 1879
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The author Thomas Sedgwick Steele and his party "discovered" what they believed to be an unmapped lake near Matagamon Lake, which was likely a flooded area temporarily created by unusually high water levels.

This area of Maine had been heavily traveled and was known to the Wabanaki and other indigenous people who lived there for centuries prior to so-called discoveries by white explorers.

Titled, Discovery of a New Lake, the etching is illustrated on page 111 of the book 'Canoe & Camera or two hundred miles through the Maine forests' by Thomas Sedgwick Steele, NY, Orange Judd Co., 1880.

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