North Country

A Personal Journey Through the Borderland

Howard Frank Mosher, Howard Frank Mosher

• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9780544391246
• Topic: Personal Development
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies

"A richly observant memoir of a coast-to-coast journey along the US-Canada border . . . An armchair traveler's delight" ( Kirkus Reviews).
 
"Part travelogue, part memoir, part meditation, part exploration," North Country is an account of a trip along the northern border of the United States in search of the country's last unspoiled frontiers ( The Boston Sunday Globe). In this vast, sparsely settled territory, Howard Frank Mosher found both a harsh and beautiful landscape and some of the continent's most independent men and women. Here, he brings this remote area to vivid life in a book "bright with anecdote and history and lore and most importantly with affection for his human subjects" (Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Independence Day).
 
"A classic road book. You could, with confidence, place this book on the shelf next to such American classics as John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley and Jonathan Raban's Old Glory." — Detroit Free Press
 
"What Mosher's northern journey is really about is our society's loss of Eden, the garden we were promised when we came here. The garden we've turned into pulp fiction and rocket ranges. The very fact that this brave book can stir up so many thoughts about the predicaments of civilization is surely an indication that it is well worth reading." — Ottawa Citizen

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• Prologue
• THE GREAT NORTH WOODS
• Notes from Route 2
• Jumping Off from Lubec
• Notes from the Maine–New Brunswick Border
• The Louisiana of the North
• Flying the Border with Ti René
• An Allagash Guide
• Brook Trout Fishing
• Notes from Indian Stream Territory
• A Green Mountain Spy Story
• Notes from the False Forty-Fifth Parallel
• On the St. Lawrence with Dr. Solomon Cook
• The Farm
• THE NORTH COAST
• The Fisherman and the Pipe Carrier
• Notes from the Upper Peninsula
• The Great Bernie Silverman
• Wild Rice and Blue Rollers
• On Strike in the Mesabi
• Notes from the Land of Ten Thousand Lakes
• Canoeing the Boundary Waters
• The Northeast Kingdom
• BORDER TOWNS
• Food Gas Grocs Beer, Minnesota
• The Coldest Spot in the Lower Forty-Eight
• Notes from Warroad
• The Northwest Angle
• Notes from the Red River Valley
• “The Brat Is Back”
• Entering the Plains
• Another Side of the Kingdom
• The Veterinarian and the Visionary
• Notes from the North Dakota Prairie
• A Close Brush
• Notes from the Medicine Line
• The Ballad of John Olson
• Jake Blodgett, Logger
• THE OUTLAW TRAIL
• Outlaw Coulee
• The Bullrider and the Outlaws
• The Ghost of Wallace Stegner
• The Writing Life
• Notes from the Milk River Breaks
• A Honeymoon in Shelby
• Jimmy Black Elk
• On Setbacks and Windfalls
• The Blackfoot, the Maverick, and the Mountie
• Two Disappearances
• A Fishing Idyll
• FRESH STARTS
• The Last Best Place
• Boundary County
• Notes from the British Columbia Border
• Surviving in Survivalist Country
• The Upper Columbia and Bill Bingham
• The Inferno and the Desert
• A North Country Love Story
• Crossing the Cascades
• Turning Fifty in the North Country
• Notes from the End of the Line
• About the Author