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.
The Franklin Historical Review is published once a year. It includes articles on county history, events and families written by local authors. This collects Vols. 1-5.
Since the mid-nineteenth century, Americans have known the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York as a site of industrial production, a place to heal from disease, and a sprawling outdoor playground that must be preserved in its wild state. Less well known, however, has been the area's role in hosting a network of state and federal prisons.
The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented by Europeans, who did not venture into the interior between the seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries. Rural Indigenousness develops a new conversation in the field of Native American studies.
The Town of Chester in upstate Warren County, New York, was a secret haven for fleeing enslaved people escaping to Canada along the Underground Railroad. The small Adirondack town holds as many as nine confirmed or suspected sites where those seeking freedom once found shelter.
A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). 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.
Probes deeply into Adirondack Mountain lives, both human and otherwise, bringing the area to vivid and colorful life.
An evocative and personal history of a unique historic place in the Adirondacks.
A collection of both oral histories and historical/statistical information about New York.
Tells the history of the many African Americans who settled in or passed through this rural, mountainous region of northeastern New York State.