Do red squirrels live in New England?

[Zavulon]

Right now I'm reading H.P.Lovecraft, "The colour out of space".
Was stumbled at the sentence "They were the usual winter prints of red squirrels, white rabbits, and foxes [...]", describing the situation west of Arkham, New England in 1880's.
I thought that red squirrel is exclusively Eurasian species of squirrels and in the North America live only gray squirrels.
After the short googling, I didn't find any evidences of red squirrels, living in New England.
Can you explain me the plot?

 

[Godboy]

Right now I'm reading H.P.Lovecraft, "The colour out of space".
Was stumbled at the sentence "They were the usual winter prints of red squirrels, white rabbits, and foxes [...]", describing the situation west of Arkham, New England in 1880's.
I thought that red squirrel is exclusively Eurasian species of squirrels and in the North America live only gray squirrels.
After the short googling, I didn't find any evidences of red squirrels, living in New England.
Can you explain me the plot?

We have red squirrels in multiple places in the US.

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

American red squirrel - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[1srelluc]

We were taught to kill every red squirrel (also known as a pine squirrel) we saw.....They are very aggressive/territorial and will run gray squirrels completely out of a patch of woods.

 

[luiza]

Not answering your question but the Red ones used to be the only ones we had in the real England .

Some lunatic introduced the grey ones here dressed in Nazi field grey and they have nearly swamped our red heads .

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Living in Indiana all my life, I had no idea that our squirrels are larger than many other states.
We have predominantly Fox and Gray squirrels.
Visiting my wife's brother in NC - I noted to him how tiny the squirrels are around his home.
He looked puzzled. "Your squirrels are bigger?"

 

[Zavulon]

Thank you all. In what types of landscape red squirrel is more usual than the gray one?

 

[Natural Citizen]

They have black ones in Iowa. Maybe other places, too, but I only know of Iowa.