Mt. Moosilauke First Ascent - Chase Whitcher
" . . . Chase, the boy settler, was a tall, bony, raw-built fellow, with a spare face, red hair, and a hard head, and he could hunt as well as the best of them. Mink, muskrat, and otter he caught by the foamy, roistering Oliverian; beaver he trapped at Beaver-meadow ponds, the head waters of the wild Ammonoosuc, and his sable lines ran here and there upon the sides of the mountains. Then it is said he was found of the occupation indicated by his given name - that in autumn he loved the chase. The cry of his old hound-dog in the woods was music to him, and following a moose one day he climbed over Moosilauke, being the first settler that ever stood on its bald summit. . . ."
From "The History of Warren, A Mountain Hamlet Located Among the White Hills of New Hampshire" by William Little,1870.
