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Letter of Fishing and Tales at Kampeska Lake
An amused traveler recounts a fishing trip to Kampeska Lake near Athens and Kampeka in August 1888. He details the lake’s size, scenery, the Sunset Beach hotel complex, local architecture, and modes of travel. notes meandering encounters with locals, including a joke about a silver pike and a camel of a gar. The piece blends travelogue with humorous anecdotes and a sunset eclipse observed on the return.
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Athens
Dak
Vrot
Baluater
Lake Kampenka
Aboul
Kampeska
Noge
Howe
Kampeaka
Wetherer
Kent
Rocky Point
L. M
Scott
Sam
Historical Society of Athens
Atraigut
Xakom Jost
Horace
Tanid
Henry
Onny
Chicago
Ban
Dent
E. R. Jones
Naples
Francia Weinberg la
Pest] Harner
Mitchell
Laura Moffitt
John Wolf
Kate Miller
Elmer Benedict
Iown
Jessie Bulley
Kimball
E. T. White
Yankton
Castalia
Frank McCartney
Woodbury County
McCartney
Dought
Misa Mattie Gillen
Gillen
John Kyle
Fumet Gann Valley Sentinel
Johnny
Pacific ‘Coast
Fle
Buffalo County
Broken Bow
Neb
Statesman
H. H. Hiatt
Kimball, Oak
Hiatt
Lews State University
Men of Laws
Heiss