AMERICAN RANGE OF THE MOOSE 53 



In the geographic nomenclature of America the 

 moose has left many evidences of his presence. The 

 list of United States post-offices, however, includes 

 only five inwhich the moose's name appears — Moose- 

 head and Moose River, Maine; Mooseheart, Illinois, 

 and Moose Lake and Moose Park, Minnesota. 



In village names the moose appears frequently 

 in various gazetteers and indexed maps. Thus 

 Moose and Moose Island are villages in Minnesota, 

 Moose Creek in Montana, Moose River in New 

 York, and Moose Meadow in Connecticut. Moose 

 River plantation is an unorganized township in 

 Maine. Moose Lake is a railway station in 

 Alaska under the shadow of the lofty volcanic 

 peak of Mount Wrangell, and Moose Pass is a 

 station on the Alaska Northern Railroad on the 

 Kenai Peninsula. 



Moose Factory is a trading post of the Hudson's 

 Bay Company on James Bay, at the mouth of 

 Moose River, Ontario. This was the ancient 

 home of the Monsoni ("moose people"), an 

 Algonquin tribe closely related to the Crees and 

 Chippewas. They are also called the Moose and 

 Moose River Indians. Their totem was the moose. 

 Moosonee or Mosonee is the district on Hudson Bay 

 from Moose River northwest to Nelson River.^"^ 



Handbook of American Indians (Smithsonian Institution, 1910). 



