On September 29, 1860, English writer Charles Dickens published an article in his weekly periodical All The Year Round titled, "Shooting in the Adirondack" [sic]. The author is unidentified. The piece describes a "tramp" taken in the Adirondack Mountains with Paul Smith as guide. Another guide, a black man named Warren, accompanied them. The guide is tentatively identified as Warren W. Morehouse, a Lower Saranac Lake guide mentioned in Stoddard's The Adirondacks Illustrated, 1881, and listed in Chuck Brumley's comprehensive book, Guides of the Adirondacks: A History.
The article is available on line as page images of the original publication, here.)
On April 25, 2018, we learned from Ted Comstock that the above account was not written by Charles Dickens. Instead, the periodical All the Year Round was "conducted by Charles Dickens." The article was unsigned, but the details are convincing enough that they seem to be the unknown writer's personal experience at that early date.
