A Moosehead Journal

"A Moosehead Journal" is an article by James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), an American poet and editor of the Romantic Era, native of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a graduate of Harvard Law School, who was a prominent abolitionist and edited and wrote for various magazines. This article purportedly presents an ornate description of a camping excursion at Moosehead Lake, a wilderness area in Central Maine.