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Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738562384
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Adirondacks, 1830-1930 written by Donald R. Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439611815
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Adirondacks: 1931-1990 written by Donald R. Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003-04-25 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the vast Adirondack wilderness has beckoned. Some, having sampled the treasury of Adirondack art and literature, are drawn by its spectacular beauty; many are lured by its year-round sports and recreational opportunities; others are enticed by its health-giving qualities-the clear air, sparkling waters, and refreshing woodlands. The Adirondacks: 1931-1990 celebrates the years in which the six-million-acre preserve truly became a people's park. With some two hundred rare images, the book includes views of the Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid in 1932, attended by thousands from the world over. It applauds the American boys working in the CCC camps in the Adirondacks during the Great Depression. It follows the steamboats as they ply Lake George and the Fulton Chain and other lakes, as well as the railroads as they bring in more and more visitors. It traces the rise and fall of the grand hotels and their successors: the cabins, motels, cottages, second homes, and campsites of the motoring public. It highlights the music, the architecture, the animals, the crafts-the more recent history of the Adirondack culture.
Author : David R. Starbuck
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
ISBN 13 : 1512602620
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Archeology in the Adirondacks written by David R. Starbuck and published by Brandeis University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates and celebrates the diverse archeology of the Adirondack Park
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738536484
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Along the Adirondack Trail written by Donald R. Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native Americans called the area Couxsaxrage, "beaver hunting ground." Professor Ebenezer Emmons named it Adirondack, after one of the native tribes. Along the Adirondack Trail traces the history and lore of the Adirondacks up the scenic roadway through the heart of New York's mountain-and-lake country. Included are tales of the Mohawk Indians and their beatified princess, Tekakwitha; the site of the mansion of Sir William Johnson, one of America's most influential citizens of the 1700s; and an important battleground of the Revolution. Rare original photographs portray each of the twenty settlements on the trail from Fonda to Malone, reflecting the lives of the guides, loggers, trappers, sportsmen, camp owners, tourists, leather workers, and health seekers who opened up the unknown county.
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738545608
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Adirondack Ventures written by Donald R. Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adirondack Ventures explores the early man-made features that were introduced into New York States great mountain and lake region. With some 200 rare photographs, this book recounts the memories of those who took part in the development of the Adirondacks, an area that covers one quarter of the state. To open up these millions of acres, pathways and roadways and, later, small airports and railways were constructed. To enhance the use and enjoyment of the wilderness, bikeways and ski slopes, as well as amusement parks and golf courses, were built. Adirondack Ventures explores the early man-made features that were introduced into New York States great mountain and lake region. With some 200 rare photographs, this book recounts the memories of those who took part in the development of the Adirondacks, an area that covers one quarter of the state. To open up these millions of acres, pathways and roadways and, later, small airports and railways were constructed. To enhance the use and enjoyment of the wilderness, bikeways and ski slopes, as well as amusement parks and golf courses, were built.
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738591696
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Adirondack People and Places written by Donald R. Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival photographs and text describe the history, social life and customs of the Adriondack Mountain region in New York.
Author : Donald R. Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738557694
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (576 download)
Download or read book Adirondack Hotels and Inns written by Donald R. Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Adirondack region evolved over years from vast, impassable wilderness to a land of logging camps, tanneries, sawmills, and small settlements. By the end of the 19th century, the area grew again, becoming a tourist destination famed for its great hotels, quaint inns, cottages, and rustic cabins. The hotels and inns spread throughout the Adirondacks, beginning after the Civil War and continuing during the Gilded Age between World Wars I and II. The region drew the rich and famous, as well as workers and families escaping the polluted cities. This volume contains 200 vintage images of those famed accommodations that catered to years of Adirondack visitors. Most of the buildings seen in this book no longer exist, having been destroyed by fires, the wrecking ball, or simply forgotten over time. Adirondack Hotels and Inns provides a timeless look at the vacation retreats of the past.
Author : Harvey H. Kaiser
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567920734
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Great Camps of the Adirondacks written by Harvey H. Kaiser and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author does a thorough job in explaining the beginnings of rustic architecture and why it has a permanent place in the culture. The mix of social background and the history of the early Adirondack camps provides a designers guidebook.
Author : Vincent Engels
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815602910
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Adirondack Fishing in the 1930's written by Vincent Engels and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the decline in Adirondack fishing in the '30s. The author offers a nostalgic view of the Adirondack wilderness 50 years ago, capturing the moods of forest, stream and lake. Classic characters - Big Smith, the hermit of Boiling Pond, Noah Rondeau and others - are brought to life.
Author : Harold E. Hinds (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Basic Guide to Genealogical and Family History Resources for Essex County, New York written by Harold E. Hinds (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Tweedale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521334587
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Sheffield Steel and America written by Geoffrey Tweedale and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides an important contribution to the technological and commercial history of crucible and electric steelmaking by thoroughly examining its development in Sheffield and American centres such as Pittsburgh. It also discusses cutlery, saw and file manufacturing, where the Americans quickly shed Sheffield's traditional technologies and, with the help of superior marketing, established a word lead by 1900. It is also shown, however, that this did not free the US from its dependence on Sheffield steel. Sheffield's innovation in special steelmaking, which began with the Hunstman crucible process in 1742, continued with a series of brilliant 'firsts', which gave the world tool, manganese, silicon, vanadium and stainless steel alloys. Thus the US continued to draw from Sheffield know-how, even in the twentieth century - a transfer of technology that was facilitated by the foundation of Sheffield's own subsidiary firms in America, the history of which is recounted here.
Author : Maura Jane Farrelly
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496237056
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent written by Maura Jane Farrelly and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024-07 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maura Jane Farrelly explores the history of the nineteenth-century United States via the lives of three people from prominent East Coast families who moved to Wyoming to escape a host of humiliations--only to discover that by 1890 the West was no longer a place where anyone could go to be forgotten and start over.
Author : Philip G. Terrie
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815602880
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Forever Wild written by Philip G. Terrie and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Terrie offers an assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in American history. He brings to life the scientists and scholars, the travellers and sportsmen, the publicists and bureaucrats, who together have contributed to the wilderness aesthetic.
Author : William H. Gerdts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Art Across America written by William H. Gerdts and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of three volumes. Vol 1 : New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic. Vol 2 : The South, Near Midwest. Vol 3 : The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific.
Author : Brad Edmondson
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501759035
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Wild Idea written by Brad Edmondson and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North Country forms the nation's largest State Park, with a territory as large as Vermont. Planning experts view the APA as a triumph of sustainability that balances human activity with the preservation of wild ecosystems. The truth isn't as pretty. The story of the APA, told here for the first time, is a complex, troubled tale of political dueling and communities pushed to the brink of violence. The North Country's environmental movement started among a small group of hunters and hikers, rose on a huge wave of public concern about pollution that crested in the early 1970s, and overcame multiple obstacles to "save" the Adirondacks. Edmondson shows how the movement's leaders persuaded a powerful Governor to recruit planners, naturalists, and advisors and assign a task that had never been attempted before. The team and the politicians who supported them worked around the clock to draft two visionary land-use plans and turn them into law. But they also made mistakes, and their strict regulations were met with determined opposition from local landowners who insisted that private property is private. A Wild Idea is based on in-depth interviews with five dozen insiders who are central to the story. Their observations contain many surprising and shocking revelations. This is a rich, exciting narrative about state power and how it was imposed on rural residents. It shows how the Adirondacks were "saved," and also why that campaign sparked a passionate rebellion.
Author : Forest History Society
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : Published under contract with the Forest History Society, Incorporated [by] Clio Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book North American Forest History written by Forest History Society and published by Santa Barbara, Calif. : Published under contract with the Forest History Society, Incorporated [by] Clio Books. This book was released on 1977 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Bicentennial of the United States of America written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
