Table of Contents
Forword Tom Slayton 7
Acknowledgements 11
Introduction 13
Part I Fur, Fins And Feathers
1 The Mount Holly Mammoth and Charlotte Whale 17
2 The Great Wolf Hunt 22
3 The Sheep Craze 26
4 Marching Turkeys to Market 31
5 Did the Catamount Return? 34
Part II Singular Characters And Surprising Events
6 Wilderness, Massacre and Cannibalism 41
7 The Oversized Confidence of ethan Allen 46
8 Was Vermont Ever a Republic? 51
9 The Pond That Ran Away 55
10 Catching Canal Fever 58
11 Hiking, Before Hiking Was a Thing 62
Part III Scams, Shams And Strange Stories
12 "The Spiritual capital of the Universe" 69
13 Channeling Charles Dickens 75
14 Charity in "The Year without a Summer" 79
15 The Varying Accounts of Sleeping Lucy 83
16 Counting on Water Cures 87
17 Our Canadian President? 91
18 An Island for the Famous 94
Part IV Personal Struggle And Social Activism
19 The Abenaki's Dilemma 101
20 Ann Story: Resolution in Revolution 105
21 A Black Preacher's Rise to Prominence 109
22 Vermont's First Strike 113
23 Furor over John Brown's Body 117
24 Anarchists vs. Socialists: A Fight to the Death 122
25 Silas Griffith's Christmas Gifts 127
26 Women's Battle for the Ballot 131
27 Squaring Off over Mccarthyism 135
Part V Riding Waves Of Change
28 Arrival of Cars Spells Doom for Some 141
29 Missing the Chance to Give Women the Vote 145
30 The Horror of the Spanish Influenza 149
31 Seeking the Good Life in Vermont 154
32 They Saw Gold in White Slopes 158
33 The Beginning of the End for Small Dairy Farms 163
34 Beauty over Billboards 167
Bibliography 171
About the Author 175
