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Greater Than A Tourist Catskill Mountains New York Usa
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Author : Christopher Grant
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-05-06
Greater Than A Tourist Catskill Mountains New York Usa written by Christopher Grant and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-06 with categories.
With travel tips and culture in our guidebooks written by a local, it is never too late to visit The Catskill Mountains. Greater Than a Tourist- Catskill Mountains New York State United States of America by Author Christopher Grant offers the inside scoop on visiting The Catskill Mountains. Check out what works and what would make our trip even more outstanding. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. Although there is nothing wrong with that, as part of the 'Greater Than a Tourist' series, this book will give you candid travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. This guide book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead gives you knowledge that you may not find in other smaller print travel books. Experience cultural, culinary delights, and attractions with the guidance of a Local. Slow down and get to know the people with this invaluable guide. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to discover new activities at your next travel destination.Inside this travel guide book you will find: Visitor information from a Local Tour ideas and inspiration Save time with valuable guidebook informationGreater Than a Tourist- A Travel Guidebook with 50 Travel Tips from a Local. Slow down, stay in one place, and get to know the people and culture. By the time you finish this book, you will be eager and prepared to travel to your next destination.
Making Mountains
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Author : David Stradling
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2009-11-23
Making Mountains written by David Stradling and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-23 with History categories.
For over two hundred years, the Catskill Mountains have been repeatedly and dramatically transformed by New York City. In Making Mountains, David Stradling shows the transformation of the Catskills landscape as a collaborative process, one in which local and urban hands, capital, and ideas have come together to reshape the mountains and the communities therein. This collaboration has had environmental, economic, and cultural consequences. Early on, the Catskills were an important source of natural resources. Later, when New York City needed to expand its water supply, engineers helped direct the city toward the Catskills, claiming that the mountains offered the purest and most cost-effective waters. By the 1960s, New York had created the great reservoir and aqueduct system in the mountains that now supplies the city with 90 percent of its water. The Catskills also served as a critical space in which the nation's ideas about nature evolved. Stradling describes the great influence writers and artists had upon urban residents - especially the painters of the Hudson River School, whose ideal landscapes created expectations about how rural America should appear. By the mid-1800s, urban residents had turned the Catskills into an important vacation ground, and by the late 1800s, the Catskills had become one of the premiere resort regions in the nation. In the mid-twentieth century, the older Catskill resort region was in steep decline, but the Jewish "Borscht Belt" in the southern Catskills was thriving. The automobile revitalized mountain tourism and residence, and increased the threat of suburbanization of the historic landscape. Throughout each of these significant incarnations, urban and rural residents worked in a rough collaboration, though not without conflict, to reshape the mountains and American ideas about rural landscapes and nature.
Guide To The Catskill Mountains For Vacationist And Tourist Classic Reprint
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Author : Howard Hendricks
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-08-23
Guide To The Catskill Mountains For Vacationist And Tourist Classic Reprint written by Howard Hendricks and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-23 with Science categories.
Excerpt from Guide to the Catskill Mountains for Vacationist and Tourist This river trip to the Cat'skills covers the most interesting part of the Hudson. 'the stream above Catskill is less impressive and the banks lose scenic interest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
The Catskills
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Author : Thomas Longstreth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-09-18
The Catskills written by Thomas Longstreth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-18 with categories.
"The Adirondacks is a lovely dedication and exploration of the area just a year after President Roosevelt preserved the park." The Sun Community News Thomas Morris Longstreth (1886-1975) was a famous American author of over 40 books. In 1918 he published "The Catskills." Longstreth had for many years been acquainted with the several ranges of the Appalachians, had described the Adirondacks and the Catskills, and was no stranger to the wilderness haunts of Eastern America. "The Catskills" was well received at the time of its publication: "This informal description of the Catskill region derives a great part of its inspiration and value from the fact that its author has tramped and camped in the mountains for many years, and has made himself familiar not only with the natural features of the Catskills, but with the people of the countryside as well. Mr. Longstreth is the author of a similar book on the Adirondacks." Review of Reviews, 1919 "A charming book, fitted to enhance the enjoyment of all intelligent dwellers or sojourners among these fine hills. It is not a mere guide or reference book but a work worth while as a bit of literature, very pleasant to read, full of humor and incident as well as of solid fact. With all this lightness of touch, the whole work is permeated with the essence of the Catskills, the things that bring over 100,000 visitors every year from Greater New York to rest a while, exercise 'that tired feeling,' and go home rejuvenated. "The author sets forth all kinds of truth about these mountains. He has walked everywhere among them and almost photographs hill and vale in words. If he talks of their delicate charm he also says that in the dog days, when New York City is hot, the Catskills are hot too. The fact is that the average summer daylight temperatures of the Catskill plateau, where people live, are only about ten degrees lower than those of the city." Geographical Review, 1920 "The Catskills," which is a delectable combination of guide-book and the spirited and enthusiastic travel-book, recalls to New Yorkers and the East generally, the too little recognized fact that the Catskill region, in spite of its nearness, is far from tame and is beautiful with a quality of its own. "Time was when the Catskills were about the only mountain country available for the fortnight vacation," Mr. Longstreth writes in his book. A man with a map in his hand can plunge into as wild a wild as most men want four or five hours after he has left his taxicab in New York. Works by Thomas Morris Longstreth include: The Scarlet Force: The Making of the Mounted Police Great Stories of Canada: The Force Carries On / The True North The Adirondacks The Catskills Reading the Weather Tad Lincoln the president's son To Nova Scotia Understanding the weather The Silent Force: Scenes From the Life of the Mounted Police of Canada Knowing the weather The Lake Superior Country The Laurentians, the hills of the habitant Two rivers meet in Concord Michel of Ironwood The Force Carries On: The Sequel to "The Scarlet Force" Knowing the Weather The Adirondacks: Printed from the 1917 Original Hideout The Lake Placid Country Tramper's Guide Bull Session
Guide To The Catskill Mountains For Vacationist And Tourist
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Author : Howard [From Old Catalog] Hendricks
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2013-12
Guide To The Catskill Mountains For Vacationist And Tourist written by Howard [From Old Catalog] Hendricks and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12 with categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
The Catskill Mountains Pine Hill And Summit Mountain Classic Reprint
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Author : J. Z. Butler
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2016-12-22
The Catskill Mountains Pine Hill And Summit Mountain Classic Reprint written by J. Z. Butler and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-22 with Reference categories.
Excerpt from The Catskill Mountains, Pine Hill and Summit Mountain First - As TO the region, and its special attractions and advantages - Every frequented locality, both of the Northern and Southern Catskills, has much to commend it to the tourist and the Summer sojourner. But, after considerable experience and a fair knowledge of other sections, my judgment is clear that no other region combines so many advantages as the vicinity of Pine Hill and the Summit Mountain, in the vital matters of pure atmosphere, of widely extended, richly diversified and beautiful views, and of variety in the means of invigoration and enjoyment. For purity of atmosphere it cannot be sur passed, since it lies in the heart of the mountain mass, so that the breezes from every quarter sweep over twenty to thirty miles of lofty and wooded hills. A simple statement as to the relative position of the included and outlying hills will indicate the character of the views and the variety of possible excursions. The hill above and west of the Village, which has many stumps of the great pines that gave name to the place, is itself an extended spur of the Belle Ayr Mountain. At its lowest elevation, where the railroad passes, it is feet; it then rises into Summit Mountain, feet above the sea level. Both Hill and Mountain form a watershed, dividing the small streams, which find their way on either side to the distant Delaware or the nearer Hudson. The Summit Mountain, too, less than three-quarters of a mile in length by an eighth in breadth, stands entirely apart. In a quadrangle of loftier mountains, affording from its top a view of almost unequalled beauty, reaching, with unintercepted vision, from five to twenty miles in every direcuon. More than this, its peculiar position in relation to the deep valleys on either side, together With the many diverse lines and angles of eight dis tinct mountain masses, outlying in as many directions, change the view at almost every step, holding an appreciative observer in a constant charm and as the grouping of hill, and vale, and mountain is thus alwavs shifting, the corresponding harmonious changes of light and shadow in the sky add their varied beauty to the vision. Beside the many easily accessible hill-points, with their attraction, there are brook-courses, and shaded ravines. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
The Catskills
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Author : Kenneth Myers
language : en
Publisher: Hudson River Museum
Release Date : 1987
The Catskills written by Kenneth Myers and has been published by Hudson River Museum this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Design categories.
The Catskills
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Author : Stephen M. Silverman
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2015-10-27
The Catskills written by Stephen M. Silverman and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with History categories.
The Catskills (“Cat Creek” in Dutch), America’s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America’s first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and landscapes, the skies, waterfalls, pastures, cliffs . . . refuge and home to poets and gangsters, tycoons and politicians, preachers and outlaws, musicians and spiritualists, outcasts and rebels . . . Stephen Silverman and Raphael Silver tell of the turning points that made the Catskills so vital to the development of America: Henry Hudson’s first spotting the distant blue mountains in 1609; the New York State constitutional convention, resulting in New York’s own Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and its own constitution, causing the ire of the invading British army . . . the Catskills as a popular attraction in the 1800s, with the construction of the Catskill Mountain House and its rugged imitators that offered WASP guests “one-hundred percent restricted” accommodations (“Hebrews will knock vainly for admission”), a policy that remained until the Catskills became the curative for tubercular patients, sending real-estate prices plummeting and the WASP enclave on to richer pastures . . . Here are the gangsters (Jack “Legs” Diamond and Dutch Schultz, among them) who sought refuge in the Catskill Mountains, and the resorts that after World War II catered to upwardly mobile Jewish families, giving rise to hundreds of hotels inspired by Grossinger’s, the original “Disneyland with knishes”—the Concord, Brown’s Hotel, Kutsher’s Hotel, and others—in what became known as the Borscht Belt and Sour Cream Alps, with their headliners from movies and radio (Phil Silvers, Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, et al.), and others who learned their trade there, among them Moss Hart (who got his start organizing summer theatricals), Sid Caesar, Lenny Bruce, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Joan Rivers. Here is a nineteenth-century America turning away from England for its literary and artistic inspiration, finding it instead in Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” and his childhood recollections (set in the Catskills) . . . in James Fenimore Cooper’s adventure-romances, which provided a pastoral history, describing the shift from a colonial to a nationalist mentality . . . and in the canvases of Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederick Church, and others that caught the grandeur of the wilderness and that gave texture, color, and form to Irving’s and Cooper’s imaginings. Here are the entrepreneurs and financiers who saw the Catskills as a way to strike it rich, plundering the resources that had been likened to “creation,” the Catskills’ tanneries that supplied the boots and saddles for Union troops in the Civil War . . . and the bluestone quarries whose excavated rock became the curbs and streets of the fast-growing Eastern Seaboard. Here are the Catskills brought fully to life in all of their intensity, beauty, vastness, and lunacy.
Catskill Mountains
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Author : Ulster & Delaware Railroad
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Catskill Mountains written by Ulster & Delaware Railroad and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) categories.
The Catskill Mountains And The Region Around
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Author : Charles Rockwell
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2017-09-17
The Catskill Mountains And The Region Around written by Charles Rockwell and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-17 with Travel categories.
Excerpt from The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around: Their Scenery, Legends, and History; With Sketches in Prose and Verse, by Cooper, Irving, Bryant, Cole, and Others The mountain torrent rushes fiercely down, Where towering clifi's in solemn grandeur frown Then gently flowing through the lowland vale, Spreads life and verdure where life else would fail. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.