The Writings of John Burroughs

Excerpt

I HAVE all the more pleasure in calling my book after the title of
the first chapter, “Pepacton,” because this is the Indian name of
my native stream.  In its watershed I was born and passed my youth,
and here on its banks my kindred sleep.  Here, also, I have gathered
much of the harvest, poor though it be, that I have put in this and
in previous volumes of my writings.