Umbazookskus Stream
- Year unknown
- Digital pigment print from original Bert Call negative
- Print Size 22 X 30 in / 55.9 x 76.2 cm
- Frame Size 30 X 37 in / 76.2 x 94.0 cm
“Having rapidly loaded the canoe, which the Indian always carefully attended to, that it might be well trimmed, and each having taken a look, as usual, to see that nothing was left, we set out again, descending the Caucomgomoc, and turning northeasterly up the Umbazookskus. This name, the Indian said, meant Much Meadow River.”
“Having paddled several miles up the Umbazookskus, it suddenly contracted to a mere brook, narrow and swift, the larches and other trees approaching the bank and leaving no open meadow, and we landed to get a black-spruce pole for pushing against the stream. This was the first occasion for one.”
—Henry David Thoreau, “1857 Allegash and East Branch”, The Maine Woods