Background
Doan was born in Summit, New Jersey, the son of Frank Carleton Doan, a Unitarian minister.
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Daniel Doan
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Dartmouth College.
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He is also the author of two novels, The Crystal Years and Amos Jackman, and a 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 area. Reviewing the book in the December 1997 issue of Appalachia, Gene Daniell wrote that it
The family"s summer home was in Orford, 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, when Doan was fifteen, he moved with his mother to Hanover, New Hampshire, and lived in New Hampshire for the rest of his life. Doan graduated from the Clark Preparatory School in Hanover in 1932 and Dartmouth College in 1936.
He also wrote short stories and articles The family moved to Laconia, New Hampshire, where Dan worked for a manufacturing company and continued writing, hiking, and fishing.
In July 1993, the Dartmouth Outing Club named a 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".
Doan died on September 24 of that year in Lancaster, New Hampshire. Doan"s papers are held at Rauner Special Collections Library at Dartmouth College.
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