Author: Harvey H. Kaiser
Publisher: David R Godine
Keywords: adirondacks, camps
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-07-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 156792073X
ISBN-13: 9781567920734

Adolph Lewisohn, requiring a staff of forty to minister to his guests’ comfort in the wilds of the Adirondacks, imported to his camp a major-domo, barber, caddy, chess-player, singing teacher, and two chauffeurs, Majorie Merriweather Post made do with eighty-five servants for the sixty-five building of Topridge, which was approached by a private funicular railway and graced by a Russian dacha a token of affection for her third husband, a former ambassador to the Soviet Union.Equally magnificent was J.P. Morgan’s Camp Uncas, Julius Bache’s Wenonah Lodge, and William Seward W

Author: Philip G. Terrie
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: people, adirondacks, nature, history, terrain, new, contested
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 2008-07
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0815609043
ISBN-13: 9780815609049

Contested Terrain explores the competing understandings of how best to manage this spectacular natural resource. Terrie introduces the key players and events that have shaped the region and its use, from early settlers and loggers to preservationists, year-round residents, and developers. This new edition includes a comprehensive account of the Pataki years, an era of stunning conservation triumphs combined with unprecedented pressures on the region’s ecological integrity.

Authors:Anne A. Weaver, Beverly Hoffman,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: images, america, adirondacks, speculator, pleasant, lake
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2010-05-26
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738572519
ISBN-13: 9780738572512

The numerous lakes and the forests of the southern Adirondacks provided an abundance of game, fish, and lumber for early settlers in the 1800s. Sportsmen from the city first came to Lake Pleasant and Speculator for invigorating camping trips and eventually brought the whole family to enjoy the wilderness. Two- and three-story hotels were built to accommodate the vacationing families. Individual cottages and rustic camps were built around Lake Pleasant, Sacandaga Lake, and Echo Lake, followed by children’s and church camps and state campgrounds, which swelled the seasonal population. Boxi

Authors:Seneca Ray Stoddard, S. Stoddard,
Publisher: Applewood Books
Keywords: adirondacks
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1557090890
ISBN-13: 9781557090898

A guide to all of the Adirondacks region published in 1874. Stoddard, a professional photographer and native of upstate New York, wrote with a witty style. This tour guide is heavily illustrated with over 70 illustrations. Includes routes, fares, time tables, maps. Describes summer resorts, lakes and ponds, mountains, and people.

Authors:Mary Ann Simpson, Jane A. Barlow, Mark Barlow, Frank
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Keywords: lake, people, land, adirondacks, moose, story
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 2004-04
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0815607741
ISBN-13: 9780815607748

Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks transports the reader back in time to the days when steamboats, buckboards, and gas lighting were common. Jane and Mark Barlow deliver tales of one-room schools, of ice harvesting, of women who managed households accessible only by boat, of families struck by deaths from tuberculosis or from drowning, of uncontrollable fires and stories of exuberant amusements such as primitive motorboats. People arrived on the first railroad to stretch through the uninhabited Adirondack wilderness and helped establish a thriving community. Early trappers and hunters of the Ad