Websites

The Hills Amenity Society Discovery Trail Website
http://www.intsl.com/hills/detail/disctrail.htm
Notes: Contains a reference to Millican Dalton was a resident of the area.

Northumbrian Mountaineering Club
Article in the NMC Newsletter No.1
http://www.thenmc.org.uk/pages/newsletter/content/orig_2.htm
[archived copy here]
Notes: Valuable contemporary account of the "skipper" as Millican Dalton was addressed

Millican Dalton - Professor of Adventure
Matthew Entwistle's website promoting his book - see below
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/matthew.entwistle/welcome.html

Wizzardmarra
Alan Whittiker's storytelling website contains a poem about Millican Dalton
http://thewizardmarra.mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/page5.html
[archived copy here]

Books

Hankinson, Alan; "A Century on the Crags"
pub: J.M.Dent & Sons, London 1988
ISBN 0-460-04755-8
Notes: A few paragraphs in the section on early guides refer to Millican Dalton. One photograph.

Bott, George; "Keswick: The Story of a Lake District Town"
pub: Chaplins of Keswick, 1994
ISBN: 0-951-24041-2
Notes: Contains a reference to Millican Dalton

Entwistle, Matthew. D; "Millican Dalton - A Search for Romance & Freedom"
pub: private, 2004
ISBN: 0-9547213-0-6
Notes: Newly published, Matthew Entwistle's book is a detailed and insightful account of Milican Dalton's life. As well as being a valuable record of his life, Matthew Entwistle's book captures the philosophy and motivations behind Millican Daltons life. The book clearly shows the two sides to Millican Dalton: his struggle for simplicity and his his continued connection with the rest of the world. It contains many interesting photographs - a large proportion of them previously unpublished.

Newspaper and Magazine Articles.

Publication: Cumbria Life
Title: unknown
Author: Nicholas Dalton
Date: c1947

Publication: Cumbria Life
Title: unknown
Author: George Bott
Date: ??

Publication: Westmorland Gazette
Title: "Professor of Adventure"
Author: Karen Barden
Date: 2003
http://www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk/search/display.html?nwid=717641
[archived copy here]
Notes: Interview with MD's oldest living relative, Nora Dalton.

Publication: Westmorland Gazette
Title: "Digging for information"
Author: Karen Barden
Date: 2003
http://www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk/archive/display.var.288309.0.digging_for_information.php
[archived copy here]
Notes: Interview with Kendal Museum curator

Publication: Times and Star
Title: "famousfolk:Millican Dalton"
Author: unattributed
Date: 2004
http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/famousfolk/update_millicandalton.asp
[archived copy here]
Notes: A rehash from other sources - no new information revealed.