Index
Numbers in italics refer to photographs, illustrations, or maps.
- Andrea Doria, 61
- Atwood-Higgins House, 38-39
- Barnstable, 61, 94
- Beaches, 25, 37, 40, 73, 92, 99, 101
- Beech Forest, 97, 99
- Belmont, August, 65, 106
- Beston, Henry, 7, 14, 71, 72, 73, 109
- Bicycling, 24, 96, 101, 105
- Birds, 66-67, 81, 98-99, 107, 111;
- shooting, 70;
- watching, 98-99, 101
- Blackfish Creek, 30, 58
- Boating, 92, 100
- Botkin, Henry, 33
- Bourne, 106;
- bridge, 65, 76
- Bradford, William, 31
- Brewster, 58, 91, 100-101
- Bridges, 65, 76
- Buzzards Bay, 70, 106
- Cape Cod, 20-21;
- Bay, 46, 53, 58;
- Branch Railroad, 70;
- Canal, 61, 62-63, 65, 106;
- history, 69;
- House, 7, 38-39;
- Light, 62, 64, 104;
- Museum of Natural History, 80, 100, 101;
- School of Art, 70;
- Stranding Network, 80
- Cape Cod National Seashore:
- camping, 91;
- founding of, 17-18, 80;
- headquarters, 103;
- location, 86;
- map, 88-89;
- recreation, 92-99;
- transportation, 87;
- visitor centers, 90
- Captains, ship, 50-51, 58-59
- Channing, William, 69
- Chatham, 28-29, 62, 64, 65, 93, 100, 101
- Clams, 93
- Cleveland, Grover, 70
- Coast Guard, U.S., 64, 65;
- Beach, 24, 25, 30, 32, 40, 92
- Cobb, Elijah, 50
- Columbia, 50
- Commerce, 47, 52-53, 69, 75, 76
- Cottages, summer, 76
- Cranberries, 68, 74-75, 76
- Crosby, Charles, 50
- Crosby, James E., 50
- de Bry, Theodore, 32
- de Champlain, Samuel, 32, 101
- Dennis, 61
- Dunes, 4-5, 29, 30, 46
- Eastham, 34, 69, 101-2;
- Coast Guard Station, 36;
- visitor center, 30, 90, 102.
- See also Nauset Marsh
- Eldridge, Asa, 51
- Elizabeth Islands, 24, 26
- Environmental education, 80, 90, 100
- Erosion, 28-29, 36-37, 40-41
- Fish, 32, 42-44, 45-47, 81;
- industry, 53, 54-55, 93
- Federal Migratory Bird Treaties, 1916, 70
- Gale, October 1841, 59, 64
- Geology, 23-30, 36-41, 46;
- maps, 26-29
- Georges Banks, 25, 59, 64
- Glaciation, 7, 23-24, 26-27, 46.
- See also Geology
- Golf, 71
- Gosnold, Bartholomew, 46-47
- Grand Banks, 47, 59
- Grass, 30-31, 42, 43, 45, 80
- Gravestones, 51, 59
- “Graveyards of the Atlantic”, 59.
- See also Shipwrecks
- Great Beach, The, 71
- Great Blizzard, 1978, 15, 40
- Great Island, 30, 103
- Great Pond, 27
- Gulf Stream, 46
- Hall, Henry, 74
- Harding Beach, 101
- Hay, John, 71, 109
- Head of the Meadow Beach, 25
- Herring River, 15
- Highland Light, 62, 64, 71, 104
- Hiking, 96-97, 103, 104
- Hitchcock, Edward, 46
- Horseback riding, 97
- House on Nauset Marsh, 71
- Howe, James, 76
- Howes, Osborn, 50
- Jeremy Point, 28, 30
- Jonathan Young Windmill, 101
- Kendrick, John, 50
- Kennedy, John F., 17
- Kittredge, Henry, 58, 59
- Labrador Current, 46
- Laurentide ice sheet, 23, 26
- Lieutenant Island, 58
- Life Saving Service, U.S., 62-63, 64, 65, 105
- Lighthouses, 17, 62-63, 64, 65
- Lodging, 91
- Lower Cape, 24, 25, 46, 86
- Maps, 26-29, 33-35, 60, 87-89
- Mashpee, 106
- Marconi, Guglielmo, 78
- Marconi Wireless Station, 28, 78-79, 97, 103
- Martha’s Vineyard, 26, 107
- Mayflower, 34-35, 106
- Messenger, 60
- Metacomet (King Philip), 36
- Mid-Cape Highway, 76
- Monomoy Island, 30, 40, 59, 81;
- Point, 28;
- National Wildlife Refuge, 80, 101
- Morgan, Charles W., 52, 53
- Myers, Rowena, 13-14
- Nantucket, 26, 46, 107;
- Sound, 53, 70
- Native Americans, 31, 32-33, 45, 54
- Nauset:
- Beach, 30, 73, 100;
- Light, 17, 62-63;
- Marsh, 8, 10-11, 19, 71, 96, 103
- Nearby attractions, 106-7
- Nickerson, Roland C. State Park, 91, 101
- North Beach, 22, 28-29, 30
- Old Harbor Life Saving Museum, 105
- Old Schoolhouse Museum, 102
- Oliver, Mary, 71
- O’Neill, Eugene, 28, 71
- Orleans, 93, 100
- Outer Beach, 7, 15, 25, 86
- Outer Cape, 28, 37, 40
- Outermost House, The, 40, 71, 72-73, 109
- Paddock, Ichabod, 53
- Pamet:
- Harbor, 30;
- River, 24, 29
- Paulding, 61
- Peaked Hill Bars, 41, 59;
- Coast Guard Station, 28-29
- Penniman, Augusta, 49, 109
- Penniman, Edward, 49, 102-3
- Penniman House, 49, 102
- Pilgrim Monument, 2-3, 105
- Pilgrims, 33, 34-35, 65, 102, 104, 106
- Pine, pitch, 31
- Plants, 42, 43
- Pleasant Bay, 29, 70
- Plymouth, 34-35, 102, 106
- Ponds:
- kettle, 24, 25, 27;
- salt, 27, 30
- Population, 31, 32-33, 45, 54, 69-71, 76, 86, 104.
- Portland, 61
- Prence, Thomas, 102
- Province Lands, 29, 46, 96;
- Visitor Center, 90, 95, 104-5
- Provincetown, 2-3, 48, 54, 70-71, 77, 93, 94, 104-5;
- Harbor, 30, 47, 53, 65;
- Hook, 28, 30, 41;
- Players, 70-71;
- topography, 30, 40-41, 59
- Race Point, 59, 62, 64, 95, 99, 104-5;
- Ranger Station, 90
- Railroad, 65, 70, 76
- Red Jacket, 51
- Revenue Cutter Service, 64
- Rich, Shebnah, 47
- Richardson, Wyman, 71
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 79
- Safety & health, 108
- Sagamore bridge, 65, 76
- Saltonstall, Leverett, 17
- Salt Pond Visitor Center, 24, 90, 102
- Salt marshes, 30-31, 42-43, 45, 80
- Saltworks, 56-57
- Sandy Neck, 53
- Sears, John, 56
- Shipping artifacts, 50-51
- Shipwrecks, 59, 60-61, 64-65
- Smith, John, 47
- Smith, Walter, 71
- South Wellfleet, 59
- Sparrowhawk, 59, 60-61
- Speedwell, 35
- Stage Harbor, 32, 33
- Standish, Myles, 34, 36, 65, 102, 104, 106
- Stockholm, 61
- Stony Brook Mill, 100-101
- Storms, 15, 28-29, 40, 59, 64
- Thoreau, Henry David, 54, 57, 58, 69, 71, 72, 109
- Tides, 15
- Topography, 24-31, 36-41, 59, 76, 80-81, 101, 102
- Town crier, 71
- Trails, 96, 97, 103, 104
- Transportation, 87
- Truro, 24, 61, 64, 69, 76, 104
- Turner, C. E., 50
- Ulysses, 60-61
- Upper Cape, 24, 88
- Wampanoag Indians, 32-33, 45, 54, 106
- Washington, George, 65
- Water sports, 92
- Weather, 86-87
- Wellfleet, 30, 54, 69, 93, 103;
- topography, 24, 101;
- whaling, 48, 58
- Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary, 103
- Whales, 48, 58, 80, 94-95
- Whaling, 48-49, 53, 58, 104
- Whydah, 59, 61
- Wildflowers, 82-83
- Windmills, 47, 56-57, 101, 102
- Wireless telegraphy, 28, 78-79, 97, 103
- Woodlands, 31, 46
- Yarmouth, 61