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          Born in in Oxford Plains, Massachusetts, George Washington Sears pursued a lifelong passion for wilderness travel and adventure..

          George W. Sears

          American environmentalist (–)

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          Sears was born on Dec 2 outside of Oxford Plains (now ster), Massachusetts, between the Nipmuck Pond and Junkamaug Lake in the South Gore (now Kingsbury.

        1. Sears was born on Dec 2 outside of Oxford Plains (now ster), Massachusetts, between the Nipmuck Pond and Junkamaug Lake in the South Gore (now Kingsbury.
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        3. Born in in Oxford Plains, Massachusetts, George Washington Sears pursued a lifelong passion for wilderness travel and adventure.
        4. George Washington Sears wrote under the pen name “Nessmuk” in Forest and Stream magazine about his canoe trips in the Adirondacks.
        5. Sears was born in Oxford Plains, Mass., Dec. 2, , the oldest of 10 children.

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          "Nessmuk" redirects here. For the lake in Pennsylvania, see Nessmuk Lake.

          George Washington Sears (December 2, – May 1, ) was an American writer for Forest and Stream magazine in the s and an early conservationist.

          His stories, appearing under the pen name "Nessmuk", popularized self-guided canoe camping tours of the Adirondack lakes in open, lightweight solo canoes and what is today called ultralight camping or ultralight backpacking.

          Canoeing had been popularized by Scottish lawyer John MacGregor in the s, but the typical canoe trip of the day employed expert guides and heavy canoes. Sears, who was 5&#;feet 3&#;inches (&#;m) tall and pounds (47&#;kg) had a 9-foot-long (&#;m), 10+1&#;2-pound (&#;kg) solo canoe built by J.

          Henry Rushton of Canton, New York. He named it the Sairy Gamp (the name of a Di