George W. Sears

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George Washington Sears (December 2, 1821 - May 1, 1890) was a sportswriter for Forest and Stream magazine in the 1880s and an early conservationist. His stories, appearing under the pen name, "Nessmuk" popularized self-guided canoe camping tours of the Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping. Canoeing had been popularized by Scottish lawyer John MacGregor in the 1860s, … Wikipedia
Born:
1821
Died:
1890
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  • Nessmuk's Adirondack...

    By E. R. Shumway, courtesy of the late Mrs. Marie Sears Bodine.
    www.rtpnet.org/robroy/books/gws/N.HTM

  • Biography

    faculty.mansfield.edu/tmurphy/320sears.html

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