Mount Kineo, with 700-foot (200 m) cliffs rising straight up from Moosehead
Lake, has attracted visitors for centuries, from early American Indians (Red
Paint People), to later tribes seeking its flint called hornstone, Penobscots
and Norridgewocks, the Abenaki bands who battled here with their enemy the
Mohawks, to 19th-century "rusticators" traveling by railroad and
steamboat and today's hotel guests. Various species dwell among its cliffs and
talus slopes, including peregrine falcons and rare plants. The region has a
large moose population; moose outnumber people 3:1. However, the name of the
region derives from
