The Rangeley Lakes were the crucible of Maine's nineteenth-century sporting culture, and the Rangeley boat evolved out of this distinctive time and place. As essential to Rangeley as sporting camps, fishing guides, and brook trout, the namesake boat remains a true icon. The#Rangeley and Its Region tells how entwined the boat, people, lakes, town, and economy became over a century. This engaging story includes native voices and historical photographs, and touches on sportfishing, rod-building, fly-tying, boatbuilding, guiding, and the summer culture of a remote and treasured town. B&W photographs, maps and charts Review "A rich narrative...beautifully illustrated." ―#Maine Antiques Digest "Even your non-boating friends might ask to borrow this good looking, nicely presented book." ― Woodenboat Magazine "... words hold us from page to page...drawn to the old photographs and advertisements, hundreds, a pictorial essay speaking volumes in themselves..." ― Maine Sunday Telegram About the Author Stephen A. Cole directs the natural resources and sustainable communities programs at Coastal Enterprises, Inc., a community-development corporation. He is co-author of I Was Content and Not Content: The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry and author of The Rangeley and Its Region: The Famous Boat and Lakes of Western#Maine. He lives in Damariscotta, Maine, with his family#paperback