: Gaut Gurley; Or the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Thompson Daniel P Daniel Pierce - Maine Fiction; Frontier and pioneer life Fiction; Trappers Fiction

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Town and Country contrasted, in relation to Vice and Crime.--A Display Party to avoid Bankruptcy.--Gaut Gurley, and other leading Characters, introduced as Actors in this scene of City Life.

Retrospect of the life of the Country Merchant, in making Money, to become a "Solid Man of Boston."--Humble Beginnings.--Tempted into Smuggling from Canada in Embargo times, and makes a Fortune, by the aid of the desperate and daring Services of Gaut Gurley.--A Sketch of the Wild Scenes of Smuggling over the British line into Vermont and New Hampshire.--Removal to the City.

Gambling invented by the Fiends, and is proclaimed the Premium Vice by Lucifer.--A Gambling Scene between Gaut Gurley and the merchant, Mark Elwood.--The Failure of the latter.--The Refusal of his brother, Arthur Elwood, to help him.--The Surprise and Distress of his Family.

The Downward Path of the Habitual Gambler.--His Family sharing in the Degradation, and becoming the suffering Victims of his Vices.--The Sudden Resolve to be a Man again, and remove to an unsettled Country, to begin Life anew in the Woods.

Claud Elwood and his Forest Musings.--Dangerous Assault, and slaying of a Moose.--Rescue of Gaut's Daughter from the enraged animal.--Strange Developments.--Incipient Love Scene.--Trout-catching.--Return of Claud and Phillips , to aid in saving the Elwood Cottage from the fire.--The Thunder-shower comes to complete the conquest of the fire.--The destruction of the King Pine by a Thunderbolt.

Journey up the Magalloway, to bring home the slaughtered Moose.--Love and its entanglements; its Sunshine now, its Storms in the distance.

Jaunt of Claud and Phillips over the Rapids to the next Great Lake, for Deer-hunting and Trout-catching.--Rescue of Fluella, the Indian Chief's Daughter, from Drowning in the Rapids.--Her remarkable Character for Intellect and Beauty.

The Logging Bee.--The introduction of a New Character in Comical Codman, the Trapper.--The Woodmen's Banquet.--The forming of the Trapping and Hunting Company, to start on an Expedition to the Upper Lakes.

Mrs. Elwood's Bodings, on account of the connection of her Husband and Son with Gaut and his Daughter.--Her Interview with Fluella.--Claud's Interview with Fluella and her Father, the Chief.--The Chief's History of his Tribe.

Adventures of the Trappers the first day of their Expedition up the Lakes.--Bear-hunt, Trout-catching, etc.--Introduction of Carvil, an amateur Hunter from the Green Mountains.

The Trappers' Central Camp on the Maguntic Lake.--Three Stories of most remarkable Adventures in the Woods, told at the Camp-fire by three Hunters and Trappers.

The Voyage to Oquossah, the farthest large Lake.--The stationing of the Trappers at different points on the Lake.--The appointment of Gaut as Keeper of the Central Camp, on the Lake below.--The Results of their Fall's Operations, and Preparations to return Home.

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