Author: Alfred Lee Donaldson
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Frank Graham, Jr.
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815601920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Author: Alfred Lee Donaldson
Publisher:
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Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424

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Author: Philip G. Terrie
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815602880
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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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: Mike Storey
Publisher: Storey Publishing
ISBN: 9780977717200
Category : Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Tim Rowland
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625843763
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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The unique geological history of the Adirondacks can be found in a pebble. So discovers humorist and outdoorsman Tim Rowland as he chronicles the evolution of hiking in the howling wilderness of the High Peaks. From nineteenth-century guides random scoots to Melville Deweys Adirondaks Loj to todays technologically enhanced weekenders, Rowland, who has climbed the forty-six himself, incorporates personal anecdotes and laugh-out-loud wit to capture the appeal and beauty of this beloved region, all the while reminding us of the importance of keeping these stunning mountains, and their attendant neat rocks, Forever Wild.

Author: Hallie E. Bond
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815603740
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Adirondack history is a tale written o~ the water. In the Adirondacks, people have traveled, conducted warfare, hunted and fished, gone to church, proposed marriage, and driven logs in, on, from, or by water. Without boats, small and large, Adirondack history—social, recreational, commercial, and environmental—would be an affair entirely different from what we have come to know. In this lavishly illustrated account, Hallie E. Bond presents a history of these boats—canoes, sailboats, power launches, outboards, and the indigenous guideboat—that figure prominently in the overall history of the Adirondacks. The pre-contact Indians paddled dugout and bark canoes; in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries these craft were joined by skiffs and bateaux. Between 1820 and World War II, a distinctive tradition of boat building developed, culminating in the famous Adirondack guideboat. As the nineteenth century progressed, a variety of small, fresh water, musclepowered boats was produced in the Adirondacks—an assemblage matched by only a few places in the country. There were the canoes and the men that made them famous—John Henry Rushton and Nessmuk—and the guideboats and their builders—H. Dwight Grant and Willard Hanmer. In the early twentieth century, the development of the internal combustion engine irrevocably changed not only boat use and design, but life and leisure in the Adirondacks. Bond skillfully captures the whole panorama of boats and boating in the Adirondacks, from early dugouts and bateaux to the highpowered inboards that won Gold Cup races on Lake George and the Kevlar pack canoes of today. Drawing on her experience as an historian and Curator of Collections and Boats at the Adirondack Museum, Bond places events and trends of the region in the context of national and international history and describes the significant contribution of the Adirondacks in the early twentieth-century development of recreation and travel in America. Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks also includes a descriptive catalog of boats from the museum's own collection with nearly two hundred illustrations in addition to those in the narrative, a list of boatbuilders active in the North Country before 1975, and a valuable glossary of terms.

Author: Philip G. Terrie
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN: 9780815605706
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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This work shows how expectations about land use, combined with interactions with nature have defined the Adirondacks. Outlining the disputes for the control of the land, the author introduces the key players from the residents, landholders, to preservationists and developers.

Author: Harvey H. Kaiser
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9781567920734
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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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: Alfred Lee Donaldson
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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