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Book Synopsis The Illustration of the Catskill Mountains by : H. Schile
Download or read book The Illustration of the Catskill Mountains written by H. Schile and published by . This book was released on 1881* with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Illustration Of The Catskill Mountains by : H. Schile
Download or read book The Illustration Of The Catskill Mountains written by H. Schile and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Illustration Of The Catskill Mountains: Sketched From Nature, A Special Guide Deservedly do the Americans call their treasure the American Switzerland. And above all, this perfect gem'of Nature's beauty is situated in the immediate neighborhood of the great metropolis. It seems as if the gods, in their inscrutable Wisdom, had or dained that this great city should grow up in the vicinity of the Catskills, that it might have withi1ieasy reach, a place of recreation unsurpassed in the splendor of its scenery. The mountains are not only a source of pleasure to the city inhabitants, but of something far more valuable, which money cannot buy, and that is a sound and healthy condition of mind and body. We shall not dwell upon the beneficial effects of a mountainous climate upon the constitution. Our judgment is of but little value, compared with the protes sioual opinion of such renowned physicians as Doctors Hammond, Loomis, Sayre, etc., Who have repeatedly borne testimony to the indisputable fact that a season spent in the mountainous regions, in the midst of all that is beautiful. Splendid and invigorating, can not be otherwise than beneficial. On all sides our eyes behold divine and awe-inspiring beauty and we turn with a grateful heart to i-iim, the Supreme Architect of the Universe. In submitting this work to the public, we believe we are rendering them a service which ought to secure us their good - will. We furnish the reader a safe guide - book upon which he can implicitly rely. It is not published solely for the purpose of advertising, but, on the contrary, to give the public an idea of the beautiful and romantic country so near at hand. The illustrations furnished are faa'jthful pictures from Nature, taken on the spot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Picturesque Catskills, Green County by : Richard Lionel De Lisser
Download or read book Picturesque Catskills, Green County written by Richard Lionel De Lisser and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Catskill Mountain House by : Roland Van Zandt
Download or read book The Catskill Mountain House written by Roland Van Zandt and published by Black Dome Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Catskills by : Stephen M. Silverman
Download or read book The Catskills written by Stephen M. Silverman and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catskills (“Cat Creek” in Dutch), America’s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America’s first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and landscapes, the skies, waterfalls, pastures, cliffs . . . refuge and home to poets and gangsters, tycoons and politicians, preachers and outlaws, musicians and spiritualists, outcasts and rebels . . . Stephen Silverman and Raphael Silver tell of the turning points that made the Catskills so vital to the development of America: Henry Hudson’s first spotting the distant blue mountains in 1609; the New York State constitutional convention, resulting in New York’s own Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and its own constitution, causing the ire of the invading British army . . . the Catskills as a popular attraction in the 1800s, with the construction of the Catskill Mountain House and its rugged imitators that offered WASP guests “one-hundred percent restricted” accommodations (“Hebrews will knock vainly for admission”), a policy that remained until the Catskills became the curative for tubercular patients, sending real-estate prices plummeting and the WASP enclave on to richer pastures . . . Here are the gangsters (Jack “Legs” Diamond and Dutch Schultz, among them) who sought refuge in the Catskill Mountains, and the resorts that after World War II catered to upwardly mobile Jewish families, giving rise to hundreds of hotels inspired by Grossinger’s, the original “Disneyland with knishes”—the Concord, Brown’s Hotel, Kutsher’s Hotel, and others—in what became known as the Borscht Belt and Sour Cream Alps, with their headliners from movies and radio (Phil Silvers, Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, et al.), and others who learned their trade there, among them Moss Hart (who got his start organizing summer theatricals), Sid Caesar, Lenny Bruce, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Joan Rivers. Here is a nineteenth-century America turning away from England for its literary and artistic inspiration, finding it instead in Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” and his childhood recollections (set in the Catskills) . . . in James Fenimore Cooper’s adventure-romances, which provided a pastoral history, describing the shift from a colonial to a nationalist mentality . . . and in the canvases of Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederick Church, and others that caught the grandeur of the wilderness and that gave texture, color, and form to Irving’s and Cooper’s imaginings. Here are the entrepreneurs and financiers who saw the Catskills as a way to strike it rich, plundering the resources that had been likened to “creation,” the Catskills’ tanneries that supplied the boots and saddles for Union troops in the Civil War . . . and the bluestone quarries whose excavated rock became the curbs and streets of the fast-growing Eastern Seaboard. Here are the Catskills brought fully to life in all of their intensity, beauty, vastness, and lunacy.
Download or read book The Catskills written by Kenneth Myers and published by Hudson River Museum. This book was released on 1987 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Painter's Path Through the Catskill Mountains by : Robert Selkowitz
Download or read book A Painter's Path Through the Catskill Mountains written by Robert Selkowitz and published by Ruder-Finn Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A master of pastels, Selkowitz's gentle landscapes easily transport the viewer to the lush hills and valleys of the Catskill Mountains.
Book Synopsis Van Loan's Catskill Mountain Guide by : Walton Van Loan
Download or read book Van Loan's Catskill Mountain Guide written by Walton Van Loan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Van Loan's Catskill Mountain Guide: With Bird's-Eye View, Maps, and Choice Illustrations; Part First, Greene County; Part Second, Ulster and Delaware Counties Rates OF fare from new york city' Via catskill night boats - TO South Cairo, to Mountain House Station, to Palenville, Via hudson river day line steamers - To South Cairo, to Mountain House Station, to Palenville, Via new york central and hudson river railroad - TO South Cairo, to Mountain House Station, to Palenville. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Making Mountains by : David Stradling
Download or read book Making Mountains written by David Stradling and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.
Book Synopsis The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around by : Charles Rockwell
Download or read book The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around written by Charles Rockwell and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around: Their Scenery, Legends, and History; With Sketches in Prose and Verse, by Cooper, Irving, Bryant, Cole, and Others Early in the year 1860, the writer, or more properly, perhaps, the compiler of this work, was led, by professional duty, and the healthful climate of the mountains, to make his home in a place of peculiar and romantic beauty, on one of the lower cliffs of the Catskill range, directly in front of the high projection on which the Mountain House stands. Parochial visits, funerals, weddings, and excursions with friends from abroad, led to peculiar familiarity with scenes, objects and events of interest, in and near the mountains, as also with historical and traditionary matter, of permanent value, and importance. Events of early Indian and pioneer history were also met with, connected with war, captivity, and patriotic martyrdom, recorded only in early newspapers, manuscripts and pamphlets, rare, difficult to be found, and so worn and torn by long and frequent reading, as to have well-nigh passed away. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis Van Loan's Catskill Mountain Guide by : Walton Van Loan
Download or read book Van Loan's Catskill Mountain Guide written by Walton Van Loan and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis An Illustrated Guide to the Catskill Mountains by : Samuel E. Rusk
Download or read book An Illustrated Guide to the Catskill Mountains written by Samuel E. Rusk and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Illustrated Guide to the Catskill Mountains: With Maps and Plans Telegraphic communication between Catskill and all parts of the County. Wires direct from the Steamboat Office. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Catskill Crafts written by Jane Smiley and published by Crown. This book was released on 1988 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist Jane Smiley offers an affectionate, informative group portrait of the 15 craftsmen and -women in the Catskill Mountains towns where their native arts and crafts are flourishing. 16 full-color and 36 black-and-white photos.
Book Synopsis The Catskill Mountains by : Ulster and Delaware Railroad
Download or read book The Catskill Mountains written by Ulster and Delaware Railroad and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Catskill Mountains: The Most Picturesque Mountain Region on the Globe Or maybe a cricket or katydid, Or the songs of birds in the hedges hid, Or just some such sweet sounds as these, To fill a tired heart with ease. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Book Synopsis The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around by : Charles Rockwell
Download or read book The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around written by Charles Rockwell and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Catskill Mountains, Pine Hill and Summit Mountain (Classic Reprint) by : J. Z. Butler
Download or read book The Catskill Mountains, Pine Hill and Summit Mountain (Classic Reprint) written by J. Z. Butler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-22 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Catskill Mountains, Pine Hill and Summit Mountain First - As TO the region, and its special attractions and advantages - Every frequented locality, both of the Northern and Southern Catskills, has much to commend it to the tourist and the Summer sojourner. But, after considerable experience and a fair knowledge of other sections, my judgment is clear that no other region combines so many advantages as the vicinity of Pine Hill and the Summit Mountain, in the vital matters of pure atmosphere, of widely extended, richly diversified and beautiful views, and of variety in the means of invigoration and enjoyment. For purity of atmosphere it cannot be sur passed, since it lies in the heart of the mountain mass, so that the breezes from every quarter sweep over twenty to thirty miles of lofty and wooded hills. A simple statement as to the relative position of the included and outlying hills will indicate the character of the views and the variety of possible excursions. The hill above and west of the Village, which has many stumps of the great pines that gave name to the place, is itself an extended spur of the Belle Ayr Mountain. At its lowest elevation, where the railroad passes, it is feet; it then rises into Summit Mountain, feet above the sea level. Both Hill and Mountain form a watershed, dividing the small streams, which find their way on either side to the distant Delaware or the nearer Hudson. The Summit Mountain, too, less than three-quarters of a mile in length by an eighth in breadth, stands entirely apart. In a quadrangle of loftier mountains, affording from its top a view of almost unequalled beauty, reaching, with unintercepted vision, from five to twenty miles in every direcuon. More than this, its peculiar position in relation to the deep valleys on either side, together With the many diverse lines and angles of eight dis tinct mountain masses, outlying in as many directions, change the view at almost every step, holding an appreciative observer in a constant charm and as the grouping of hill, and vale, and mountain is thus alwavs shifting, the corresponding harmonious changes of light and shadow in the sky add their varied beauty to the vision. Beside the many easily accessible hill-points, with their attraction, there are brook-courses, and shaded ravines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.