For lovers of New York's Adirondack Mountains there is no more satisfying reading than this collection of 33 short essays on as many different regions and historical incidents of the North Country, written and first published more than a century ago. 
The author covers a wide territory and deals with incidents over a great time span. There are stories about Champlain, Cartier and other early explorers, about the Indians and about the early trappers and settlers. Nat Foster, Sir William Johnson, Joseph Bonaparte and John Brown all make appearances. There are chapters on Tryon County, Smith's Lake, the High Peaks, Indian Pass, Lake George, the Manor of Willsboro and on the Chazy, Hudson and St. Lawrence Rivers, and much more.

Historical Sketches of Northern New York and the Adirondack Wilderness

History

Sylvester, Nathaniel B.

Americas

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Westchester County During the American Revolution, 1775-1783

Hufeland, Otto

History of Westchester County

Shonnard, F.

Excerpt from Fishers Island, N. Y., 1614-1925IT has been said that a good book needs no preface. This short: history, however, must have one, for the author does not pretend to be either writer or historian and possibly mistakes have crept in, for which he wishes to apologize.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Fishers Island N.Y. 1614-1925

Ferguson, Henry L.

Book by Canning, Jeff, Buxton, Wally

History of the Tarrytowns, Westchester County, New York: From Ancient Times to the Present

Canning, Jeff

Buxton, Wally

Historic White Plains

Business & Money

John Rosch

Economics

Woods and waters: Or, The Saranacs and Racket

Street, Alfred Billings

The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks

A. L. Byron-Curtiss

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ...same time preserve a practicable grade. It should be downhill all the way from the starting point, so that large loads can be hauled, and yet not so steep as to shove a team over the bank. Skill and experience are called for in the construction of side-hill or dugway roads, in bridge building, and in corduroying swamps. The camps having been built, the bark peeled and ranked, and the skidways piled high with logs (PI. XIII), upon the first deep snow the hauling commences. The roads are sprinkled from a large water tank, drawn on a sleigh, until a good ice bottom is formed, while on the steep grades sand and gravel are thickly spread to retard the speed of the loaded sleighs. Soon the landing or banking ground becomes a scene of activitj'. Teams drive up in quick succession to be unloaded, binding chains are unfastened by the unloaders, and the huge loads roll off the sleighs with a bumping, thumping noise as the logs rebound from the frozen earth. The teamsters vie with each other in the size of their loads; and with the wide "bunks" now in use, iced roads, and heavy teams, a pyramid of logs is rolled up on the sleigh at the skidways until the driver, astride on the top log, is perched 10 feet or more above the ground. (PI. XIV, fig. 2.) Some of the "champion" loads contain from 5,000 to 6,000 feet, although smaller ones are the general rule. A teamster is expected to make a specified number of trips each day, according to the length of the haul, which varies in most jobs from 1 to 4 miles, sometimes more. He must needs go to sleep early, because he must be up long before daylight, feed his team, get his Fig. 1.--Cutting Spruce Logs, Hamilton County. Fig. 2.--Measuring And Marking Logs On The Skids. en c 2 2 m P N r o OD breakfast, and he off on...

History of the lumber industry in the State of New York: With an appendix, The roll of pioneer lumbermen

Fox, William F.

From the cover flap: Alfred  Donaldson's History of the  Adirondacks is recognized as the major work about the entire region and... was first published in 1921 but was sold out in a few years.

History of the Adirondacks

Donaldson, Alfred L.

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