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Title
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Thoreau Hikes Mount Monadnock
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Description
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Mount Monadnock, located in Jaffery New Hampshire, stands at 3,166ft above sea level. Native Americans named the mountain Monadnock, meaning "mountain that stands alone." Transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau took four trips up the mountain throughout the mid-19th century. Thoreau wrote in his journal about an account from a man in Peterborough where the mountain top had caught fire, burning all the trees off he peak. In their place, a dense thicket grew, creating a brilliant habitat for wolves to thrive. Farmers in the area saw their livestock being killed off in large numbers by the wolves. In an effort to remove wolves from the area, the farmers set the thicket on fire, burning everything off the peak, wolves and all plants together, thus forming the bald peak at such a low elevation.
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Date
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1844 – 1860
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Location - Physical Location
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42.86141, -72.10807
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Name
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Carter Rousseau
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cites
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https://www.walden.org/what-we-do/library/thoreau/mount-monadnock/
