New Hampshire sweeps over the diverse and isolated terrain of this
quintessential New England state, describing its islands and mountains,
the many hikes and highways a traveler may follow to discover its
landscape, and the personalities this landscape inspired. Lawson looks
at the legacy of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Robert Frost, who wrote
enduringly about the state, its countryside, and people, and also a line
of highly educated religious men and women who worked to tame the
wildness of both the people and the land. In the records these
individuals--John Tucke, Jeremy and Ruth Belknap of Dover, Eleazar
Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College, and Dr. Josiah and Mary Bartlett
of Kingston--kept of their lives, Lawson finds a unique history of the
Granite state.