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The Mirror of Maine:
One Hundred Distinguished Books
That Reveal The History Of The State And The Life Of Its People

Published by The University of Maine Press and the Baxter Society, in association with The Maine Historical Society (Orono and Portland, ME, 2000). The books are listed in order of publication, oldest to most recent.
Books with call numbers next to them are available in the library - others may be available through inter-library loan.

Title		Published	Author	Call Number
1.	Les Voyages du Sieur de Champlain	1613	Samuel De Champlain
2.	Voyage into New England	1628	Christopher Levett
3.	An Account of Two Voyages to New-England	1674	John Josselyn	974.12 JOS
4.	A Narrative of the Sufferings, Preservation and Deliverance, of Capt, Dean and Company	1711	John Dean
5.	Memories of Odd Adventures, Strange Deliverances, in the Captivity of John Gyles	1736	John Gyles
6.	The New-England Farmer	1790	The Reverend Samuel Deane
7.	The Town Officer; or, the Power and Duty of Selectmen, Town Clerks, Town Treasurers	1791	Samuel Freeman
8.	The Harmony of Maine	1794	Supply Belcher
9.	A Narrative of the Life, Adventures, Travels, and Sufferings of Henry Tufts	1807	Henry Tufts
10.	The Maine Farmer's Almanack	1819	Moses Springer
11.	The Constitution of the State of Maine and that of the United States	1825	Maine
12.	Tales of the Night	1827	Sally Sayward Barrell Keating Wood	FIC WOO
13.	A Survey of the State of Maine, in Reference to its Geographic Features, Statistics and Political Economy	1829	Moses Greenleaf	ME REF 330.9741 GRE
14.	Elements of Mental Philosophy	1831	Thomas Cogswell Upham
15.	The History of the State of Maine: From its First Discovery, A.D. 1602 to the Separation, A.D.1820, Inclusive	1832	William D[urkee] Williamson	ME REF 974.1 WIL
16.	The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing, of Downingville	1833	Seba Smith
17.	Scripture Animals	1834	Jonathan Fisher
18.	Light and Truth	1836	R[obert] B[enjamin] Lewis
19.	First Report on the Geology of the State of Maine; Atlas of Plates, Illustrating the Geology of the State of Main	1837	Charles T. Jackson
20.	Evangeline	1847	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	811 LON
21.	Journals of the Rev. Thomas Smith and the Rev. Samuel Deane	1849	William Willis, Editor	ME REF 974.1 SMI
22.	Forest Life and Forest Trees	1851	John S. Springer	917.41 SPR
23.	The Frontier Missionary	1853	William S. Bartlet
24.	The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine	1862	Harriet Beecher Stowe	FIC STO
25.	The Maine Woods	1864	Henry David Thoreau	917.41 THO
26.	Lion Ben of Elm Island	1869	Elijah Kellogg
27.	Wandering Recollections of a Somewhat Busy Life: An Autobiography	1869	John Neal
28.	History of the First-Tenth-Twenty-ninth Maine Regiment	1871	John M. Gould
29.	The House of Yorke	1872	Mary Agnes Tincker
30.	Farrar's Illustrated Guide Book, to Rangeley	1876	Charles A.J. Farrar
31.	The Trelawny Papers	1884	James Phinney Baxter	ME REF 974.1 BAX
32.	Examples of American Domestic Architecture	1889	John Calvin Steven and Albert Winslow Cobb
33.	The Life and Traditions of the Red Man	1893	Joseph Nicolar
34.	An Island Garden, With Pictures and Illuminations by Childe Hassam	1894	Celia Thaxter	635.9 THA
35.	The Country of the Pointed Firs	1896	Sarah Orne Jewett	FIC JEW
36.	The Aletheia: Spirit of Truth	1899	Aurelia Gay Mace
37.	In the Maine Woods: A Guidebook for Sportsmen	1900	Bangor & Aroostook Railroad Company (Winfield M. Thompson)
38.	Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm	1903	Kate Douglass Wiggin	FIC WIG, J WIG
39.	The Penobscot Man	1904	Fannie Hardy Eckstorm	917.41 ECK
40.	The Green Shay	1905	George Savary Wasson
41.	The Town Down the River: A Book of Poems	1910	Edwin Arlington Robinson
42.	When Life Was Young at the Old Farm in Maine	1912	C[harles] A[sbury] Stephens
43.	The Passing of the Armies: An Account of the Final Campaign of the Army of the Potomac, Based upon Personal Reminiscences of the Fifth Army Corps	1915	Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain	973.7416 CHA
44.	Renascence and Other Poems	1917	Edna St. Vincent Millay
45.	The Birds of the Lake Umbagog Region of Maine	1924	William Brewster
46.	The Meddybemps Letters	1924	William R. Pattangall
47.	Guide to Katahdin and the Adjacent Region	1928	Appalachian Mountain Club
48.	Arundel	1930	Kenneth Roberts	FIC ROB
49.	Mary's Neck	1932	Booth Tarkington
50.	As the Earth Turns	1933	Gladys Hasty Carroll	FIC CAR
51.	Silas Crockett	1935	Mary Ellen Chase	FIC CHA
52.	Maine: A Guide "Down East	1937	Federal Writers' Project	917.41 WRI
53.	Donn Fendler: Lost on a Mountain in Maine	1939	Donn Fendleras, Told to Joseph B. Egan	J974.1 FEN
54.	Good Maine Food	1939	Marjorie Mosser	641.59741 MOS
55.	Penobscot Man: The Life History of a Forest Tribe in Maine	1940	Frank G. Speck
56.	The Strange Woman	1941	Ben Ames Williams	FIC WIL
57.	We Took to the Woods	1942	Louise Dickinson Rich	917.41 RIC
58.	High Tide at Noon	1944	Elizabeth Ogilvie	FIC OGI
59.	Farmer Takes a Wife	1945	John Gould	630 GOU
60.	Northern Farm	1948	Henry Beston	630 BES
61.	Coast Calendar	1949	Robert Peter Tristram Coffin
62.	The Enchanted: An Incredible Tale	1951	Elizabeth Coatsworth	FIC COA
63.	One Morning in Maine	1952	Robert McCloskey	E MCC
64.	Charlotte's Web	1952	E[lwyn] B[rooks] White	J WHI
65.	The Edge of the Sea	1955	Rachel Carson	591.92 CAR
66.	A Maine Hamlet	1957	Lura Beam	974.1 BEA
67.	The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War	1957	John J. Pullen
68.	The Walk Down Main Street	1960	Ruth Moore	FIC MOR
69.	The Islanders	1961	Philip Booth
70.	Papa Martel: A Novel in Ten Parts	1961	GÉrard Robichaud	FIC ROB
71.	Maine and its Role in American Art	1963	Gertrud A. Mellon and Elizabeth F. Wilder, Editors	709.73 MEL
72.	Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck	1966	Philip C. Beam	759.13 BEA
73.	Summer Island: Penobscot Country	1966	Eliot Porter	917.41 POR
74.	A Portrait of Maine	1968	Berenice Abbott	917.41 ABB
75.	Maine Becomes a State	1970	Ronald F. Banks	974.1 BAN
76.	A Maritime History of Bath, Maine and the Kennebec River Region	1973	William Avery Baker
77.	Salem's Lot	1975	Stephen King	FIC KIN
78.	Maine Forms of American Architecture	1976	Deborah Thompson, Editor	720.9741 MAI
79.	The House by the Sea: A Journal	1977	May Sarton	818 SAR
80.	Wildfire Loose: The Week Maine Burned	1978	Joyce Butler	974.1 BUT, 904.974 BUT
81.	Death in Lobster Land	1978	Leo Connellan
82.	Continuing the Good Life: Half a Century of Homesteading	1979	Helen Nearing and Scott Nearing	917.4 NEA
83.	Bert and I and Other Stories from Down East	1981	Marshall Dodge and Robert Bryan	818 DOD
84.	Poems for Sutton Island	1983	Hortense Flexner, with Marguerite Yourcenar, translator
85.	Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Building of New England	1984	Thomas C. Hubka	728 HUB
86.	The Beans of Egypt, Maine	1985	Carolyn Chute	FIC CHU
87.	The French at Pentagoet, 1635-1674: An Archaeological Portrait of the Acadian Frontier	1987	Alaric Faulkner and Gretchen Fearon Faulkner
88.	The Lobster Gangs of Maine	1988	James M. Acheson
89.	Island Boy	1988	Barbara Cooney	E COO
90.	George Magoon and the Down East Game War: History, Folklore, and the Law	1988	Edward D. Ives
91.	A Cruising Guide to the Maine Coast	1988	Henry Taft and Jan Taft	797.1 TAF
92.	Ravens in Winter	1989	Bernd Heinrich	598.8 HEI
93.	Liberty Men and Great Proprietors	1990	Alan Taylor	974.1 TAY
94.	A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on her Diary, 1795-1812	1990	Laurel Thatcher Ulrich	974.1 ULR
95.	Acadian Hard Times	1991	C. Stewart Doty	338.1 DOT
96.	Crossing Lines: Histories of Jews and Gentiles in Three Communities	1992	Judith S. Goldstein
97.	Molly Spotted Elk: A Penobscot in Paris	1995	Bunny McBride	973 MCB
98.	Winter's Light: Reflections of a Yankee Queer	1995	John Preston	813 PRE
99.	Kitchen Boy	1996	Sanford Phippen	813 PHI
100.	The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey	1999	Linda Greenlaw	639.2 GRE

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The Mirror of Maine: One Hundred Distinguished Books That Reveal The History Of The State And The Life Of Its People

The Mirror of Maine:
One Hundred Distinguished Books
That Reveal The History Of The State And The Life Of Its People