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Neurologist George Miller Beard had seen a lot of things in his just under forty years on Earth. He was a Civil War veteran, a Yale graduate, a prominent name in sweeping progressive change in the fields of neuroscience and psychiatry, and he was a vocal advocate for the treatment of mental illness and the protection of the mentally ill. Now, his storied career was bringing him to the remote wilderness to observe a group of French-Canadian lumberjacks.

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Maine to the Rescue: "Oh, the glory of it, the splendor of it! And here--here it is neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red herring. A wretched, makeshift season, which they call winter because they don't know what else to call it."