# Daniel Doan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Doan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Doan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Doan > Source revision: 1303914136 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American novelist}} '''Daniel Doan''' (February 23, 1914 – September 24, 1993) is best known for his classic hiking books, ''50 Hikes in the [White Mountains](/source/White_Mountains_(New_Hampshire))'' and ''50 More Hikes in [New Hampshire](/source/New_Hampshire)''. He is also the author of two [novel](/source/novel)s, ''The Crystal Years'' and ''Amos Jackman'', and a [memoir](/source/memoir), ''Our Last Backpack''. His North Country history, ''Indian Stream Republic: Settling a New England Frontier, 1785–1842'', grew out of his explorations in the [Pittsburg](/source/Pittsburg%2C_New_Hampshire) area. Reviewing the book in the December 1997 issue of ''Appalachia'', Gene Daniell wrote that it
"gives an excellent account of the history of the [Indian Stream Republic](/source/Indian_Stream_Republic), and it also provides an evocative picture of the life of the settlements, a life hard but curiously satisfying to those who had the will and the luck to make good. The reader will gain a great deal of insight into the lives of the people who settled the frontier regions of New England, most of whom are memorialized only by a weathered stone in a cemetery near a church or along a back road. In a real sense, this book is their living memorial."
Doan was born in [Summit, New Jersey](/source/Summit%2C_New_Jersey), the son of Frank Carleton Doan, a [Unitarian](/source/Unitarianism) minister. The family's summer home was in [Orford, New Hampshire](/source/Orford%2C_New_Hampshire), where Doan's grandmother had been born. This area had a great influence on him, nurturing his love of the woods and mountains, hiking, and fishing. After his father's death in [Winchester, Massachusetts](/source/Winchester%2C_Massachusetts), when Doan was fifteen, he moved with his mother to [Hanover, New Hampshire](/source/Hanover%2C_New_Hampshire), and lived in New Hampshire for the rest of his life. Doan graduated from the [Clark Preparatory School](/source/Clark_Preparatory_School) in Hanover in 1932 and [Dartmouth College](/source/Dartmouth_College) in 1936.{{cite web | url =http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ml82.html | title =The Papers of Daniel Doan in the Dartmouth College Library | author =Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College | year =1996 | publisher =Dartmouth College | accessdate =February 20, 2011 | archive-date =January 11, 2014 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140111023517/http://ead.dartmouth.edu/html/ml82.html | url-status =dead }} Doan then went into farming with his wife, Ernestine Crone, in Orford and subsequently in [Belmont](/source/Belmont%2C_New_Hampshire). He also wrote short stories and articles. In 1939 his daughter [Ruth](/source/Ruth_Doan_MacDougall) was born, and in 1941 his daughter Penelope. The family moved to [Laconia, New Hampshire](/source/Laconia%2C_New_Hampshire), where Dan worked for a manufacturing company and continued writing, hiking, and fishing. After Ernestine's death in 1982, he married Marjorie Marran and they moved to [Jefferson, New Hampshire](/source/Jefferson%2C_New_Hampshire). In July 1993, the [Dartmouth Outing Club](/source/Dartmouth_Outing_Club) named a [Smarts Mountain](/source/Smarts_Mountain) trail in Orford the Daniel Doan Trail, "in recognition of Daniel Doan's efforts to stimulate interest and involvement in hiking and the out-of-doors".{{cite web | url =http://www.ruthdoanmacdougall.com/hiking/trail.html | title =The Daniel Doan Trail | author =Ruth MacDougall | authorlink =Ruth Doan MacDougall | date = | publisher = | accessdate =February 1, 2011 | archive-date =March 4, 2016 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074730/http://www.ruthdoanmacdougall.com/hiking/trail.html | url-status =dead }} Doan died on September 24 of that year in [Lancaster, New Hampshire](/source/Lancaster%2C_New_Hampshire). The New Hampshire Writers' Project honored him posthumously with its 1994 Lifetime Achievement Award.{{cite web|url=http://www.nhwritersproject.org/newfiles/NewHampshireLiteraryAwardsDescriptions.html |title=New Hampshire Literary Awards descriptions and past winners |publisher=New Hampshire Writers' Project |accessdate=February 1, 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726192703/http://www.nhwritersproject.org/newfiles/NewHampshireLiteraryAwardsDescriptions.html |archivedate=July 26, 2011 }} His papers are archived at Dartmouth College, and daughter Ruth has continued to compile later editions of the hiking guidebooks under the original titles. Doan's papers are held at [Rauner Special Collections Library](/source/Rauner_Special_Collections_Library) at Dartmouth College. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [http://archives-manuscripts.dartmouth.edu/repositories/2/resources/2762 The Papers of Daniel Doan] at Dartmouth College Library {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Doan, Daniel}} Category:1914 births Category:1993 deaths Category:20th-century American memoirists Category:American non-fiction outdoors writers Category:20th-century American novelists Category:Dartmouth College alumni Category:People from Lancaster, New Hampshire Category:Writers from Summit, New Jersey Category:Novelists from New Hampshire Category:People from Jefferson, New Hampshire Category:American male novelists Category:American male short story writers Category:20th-century American short story writers Category:Writers from Hanover, New Hampshire Category:People from Belmont, New Hampshire Category:People from Laconia, New Hampshire Category:People from Coös County, New Hampshire Category:20th-century American male writers Category:Novelists from New Jersey Category:People from Orford, New Hampshire Category:American male non-fiction writers Category:Memoirists from New Jersey Category:Memoirists from New Hampshire --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Daniel Doan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Doan) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Doan?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.