From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
Love the "Big Books." I wish they'd bring those back.
ReplyDeleteI love it when people do this. A selfie is all well and good but your bookshelf tells me who you are not just what you look like. :p
ReplyDeleteI didn't know there was a Big Book of the Weird Wild West. The others are great.
ReplyDeleteI have a small house and two kids, so this shelf is pretty much my only "personal" area. All my other gaming/comic/nerd stuff is in boxes. So this is the super important/worth displaying stuff. Along with minis and toys I need to put away, and several things I need to glue for my wife and daughter. They just put broken stuff on my shelf hoping I'll take out my super glue and paints and fix it.
ReplyDeleteNot pictured because I'm currently playing/using/reading it: ACKS, 13th Age, and Torchbearer.
Oh, Jebus. Those motivational books my boss gave me are still on my shelf.
ReplyDeleteIgnore those! I didn't read them!
couldn't be bothered, Casey Garske?
ReplyDeletewe had a "Wordplace Engagement Survey" not too long ago. I felt compelled to ask what it meant if nobody could be bothered to complete it.
ReplyDeleteI took the personality test one the night before my review. She'd given me the book...at my previous review.
ReplyDeleteOoh... Northlanders very nice.
ReplyDeleteHey it's The Tick and American Maid!
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