The Davistown Museum

Maine History
Popular authors

The Bates Manufacturing Co. (1948). Do you know Maine? Maine comes into its own. Vol. III. The Bates Manufacturing Co., Lewiston, ME. IS.

The Bates Manufacturing Co. (1949). Do you know Maine? The history and legends of our state. Vol. IV. The Bates Manufacturing Co., Lewiston, ME. IS.

Bearse, Ray. (1969). Maine: A guide to the vacation state. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA.

Calvert, Mary R. (1986). Dawn over the Kennebec. The Monmouth Press, Monmouth, ME. IS(2).

An excellent general introduction for the non-specialist.

Calvert, Mary R. (1991). Black robe on the Kennebec. The Monmouth Press, Monmouth, ME. IS.

Clark, A. Carman. (1985). From the orange mailbox: Notes from a few country acres. The Harpswell Press, Gardiner, ME. IS.

Coffin, Robert P. Tristram. (1934). Lost paradise: A boyhood on a Maine coast farm. The MacMillian Company, NY, NY. IS.

Coffin, Robert P. Tristram. (1937). Kennebec: Cradle of Americans. In the series: The rivers of America. Skinner, Constance Lindsay, Ed. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., Rahway, NJ. IS.

Coffin, R. P. T. (1947). Do you know Maine? Maine holidays: by R. P. T. Coffin. Vol. II. The Bates Manufacturing Co., Lewiston, ME. IS.

Cole, Allie. (1980). Allie Cole: A maine pioneer. Casco Printing Company, Portland, ME. IS.

DeVoto, Bernard. (1943). The year of decision: 1846. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. IS.

Dietz, Lew. (1969). Touch of wildness - a Maine woods journal. Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY, NY. IS.

Emerson, Walter. (1922). When north winds blow. Lewiston Journal Company, Lewiston, ME. IS.

Etnier, Elizabeth. (1937). On Gilbert head; Maine days. Little, Brown, Boston, MA. IS.

Fisher, R. Barry. (2001). A doryman's day. Tilbury House, Gardiner, ME.

Lee, W. Storrs. (1968). Maine: A literary chronicle. Funk & Wagnalls, NY, NY.

Maine Automobile Association. (1913). Maine automobile road book and pine tree tour. Touring Information Bureau, Maine Automobile Association, Portland, ME. IS.

Morgan, Edmund S. (1958). The Puritan dilemma: The story of John Winthrop. In: The Library of American Biography, edited by Oscar Handlin. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. IS.

Munson, Gorham Bert. (1959). Penobscot: Down East paradise. Lippincott, Philadelphia, PA.

Woodcuts done by Carroll Thayer Berry.

Nutting, Wallace. (MCMXXIV). Maine beautiful: A pictorial record covering all the counties of Maine, with text between. Bonanza Books, NY, NY. IS.

Philbrick, Nathaniel. (2000). In the heart of the sea: The tragedy of the whaleship Essex. Penguin Books, NY, NY. IS.

Rich, Louise Dickinson. (1964). State O' Maine. Harper & Row, New York, NY.

Rich, Louise Dickinson. (1975). The coast of Maine: An informal history and guide. Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, NY.

Roberts, Kenneth. (1938). March to Quebec: Journals of the members of Arnold's expedition. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., NY, NY. IS.

Roberts, Kenneth Lewis. (1938). Trending into Maine. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, MA. IS.

Roberts, Kenneth. (1943). Rabble in arms: A chronicle of Arundel and the Burgoyne invansion. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., NY, NY. IS.

Sibley, Edwin Day. (1902). Stillman Gott, farmer and fisherman. John S. Brook & Co., Boston, MA. IS.

Simpson, Dorothy. (1960). The Maine islands in story and legend. J. B. Lippincott Co. Reprinted in 1987 by Blackberry Books, Nobleboro, ME. IS.

Smith, Edmund Ware. (1958). A treasury of the Maine woods. Frederick Fell, Inc., NY, NY. IS.

Smith, Edmund Ware. (1959). For Maine only. Frederick Fell, Inc., NY, NY. IS.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher. (1862). The pearl of Orr's Island: A story of the coast of Maine. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, NY, NY. IS.

Sylvester, Herbert Milton. (1906). Romance of the Maine coast: Old York. Vol. II. Stanhope Press, Boston, MA. IS.

Sylvester, Herbert Milton. (1907). Romance of the Maine coast: The Sokoki trail. Vol. III. Stanhope Press, Boston, MA. IS.

Wasson, George S. (1932). Sailing days on the Penobscot: The story of the river and the bay in the old days. W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., NY, NY. IS.

Wilder, Nat, Jr. (1910). A royal tragedy; when kings and savages ruled. Fireside Publishing Co., NY, NY. IS.

"The Scenes and Incidents of this Historic Romance are taken from letters and manuscripts found in an old trunk in the Garret of the Capt. Cloud Homestead at Wiscasset, Me." (not numbered).

Winslow, Ola Elizabeth. (1966). Portsmouth: The life of a town. The Macmillan Company, NY, NY. IS.