The Adirondacks
By T. Morris Longstreth
This is a guide to New York State’s great natural park, the story of two jolly companions on a fascinating journey, and an informal history, told in the most engaging style, of the romantic region from the days when the Indians had possession of it down to to-day, when the State Commission is doing its splendid work for its preservation.
The ground covered by the author, who gives his facts while he tells the story of his own and a friend’s wanderings through the Adirondacks, covers a section of woodland wilderness larger than Connecticut, girdled and laced with over a thousand lakes, shouldered into the skies by hundreds of mountains. The forest is swarming with deer and the waters with fish. There are sections in the Adirondacks where one may go for miles without meeting another human being; and there are clubs and hotels offering all the luxuries of the most sophisticated city. Whatever the Adirondacks section is and has been the author manages to tell in his narrative.
There is, for instance, an account of the early settlement there of Napoleon’s brother, of the different tribes of Indians and their warfare, of Trudeau, Stevenson, Dewey, Warner, and others whose names are associated with the region, and of the present-day work of the State’s Conservation Commission. There is information as to how to travel, what to expect in various localities, as to roads, hotels, etc., etc.
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