The Opening Of The Adirondacks With A Map And Illustrations

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The Opening Of The Adirondacks

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: New York : Hurd and Houghton
Release Date : 1865

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Mapping The Adirondacks

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Author : Thatcher Hogan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2024-09-15

Mapping The Adirondacks written by Thatcher Hogan and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-15 with History categories.

New York State’s famous Adirondack landscape is immense, spanning over six million acres of public forests, lakes, rivers, mountains, and private lands. In full color featuring hundreds of detailed maps and photos, Mapping the Adirondacks celebrates it all with the first clear account of the original surveyor who explored and fully comprehended it—Verplanck Colvin. “Everywhere below,” Colvin wrote, “were lakes and mountains so different from all maps, yet so immovably true.”His monumental accomplishment helped motivate the citizens of New York in 1894 to legally protect it for generations to come. As an eighteen-year-old budding travel writer, explorer and surveyor, Colvin began personally mapping a half-million acres of true Adirondack wilderness in 1865. Then, shortly after the state began partially funding his audacious project, Colvin reinvented himself as the “Superintendent" of a “Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness” and hired another equally intrepid surveyor to help—his ever-dependable friend Mills Blake. They extended the scope and granularity of their survey several times, hired hundreds of Adirondack guides and other talented people to assist, and devoted twenty-eight years to the challenge of professionally surveying the Adirondacks. Author Thatcher Hogan has carefully gleaned narratives and illustrations from Colvin’s notoriously dense annual reports and reassembled them with additional historic photographs to chronicle a compelling, true story of rugged exploration. After a novice’s explanation of Colvin and Blake’s surveying terms, the book follows their progress with one hundred of Hogan’s new maps and summit views. The Adirondack landscape remains formidable and fascinating—many of the views are those that Colvin first discovered. Along the way, Hogan uncovers a story of intense ambition, physical hardships, and a weatherproof friendship. The state’s meager investment in their work paid off many times over. Colvin and Blake’s surveys provided New York with the incontrovertible evidence needed to prevail in hundreds of complex Adirondack land disputes. Most significantly, it enabled the state to consolidate and expand its extraordinary Adirondack Forest Preserves—the prized mountains, forests, and waters of today’s beloved Park.

The Opening Of The Adirondacks

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Author :
language : en
Publisher: New York : Hurd and Houghton
Release Date : 1865

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The Adirondacks Illustrated

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Author : Seneca Ray Stoddard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894

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The Opening Of The Adirondacks

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-08-04

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Excerpt from The Opening of the Adirondacks: With a Map and Illustrations The tract of country to which this little volume is devoted is not so well known as it should be, being generally regarded as a mere camping-ground for hunters and sportsmen, and an occasional artist in search of the wild and the picturesque, when, in fact, it possesses great capacities for mercantile and manufacturing enterprise, as well as vast mineral and forest wealth. To give some idea, however imperfect, of what it really is, and to indicate, however briefly, what it is destined to become, is the object of the present writer, who has spared neither time nor labor to insure his volume the accuracy which he believes it to possess. Among the works consulted by him while it was in progress, may be mentioned Mr. S. H. Hammond's "Hills, Lakes, and Forest Streams"; Mr. Alfred B. Street's "Woods and Waters, or the Saranac and Racket"; Mr. J. T. Headley's "The Adirondack, or Life in the Woods"; a series of papers in "Harper's Magazine" for July, August, and September, 1859, by Messrs. 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.

Opening Of The Adirondacks

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901

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The Adirondacks

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892

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Forest And Stream

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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

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Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue

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Author : Avero Publications Limited
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984

Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue written by Avero Publications Limited and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Reference categories.

Hiking The Adirondacks

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Author : Lisa Ballard
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-06-30

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This book features the best day hikes and weekend backpacking trips in the mountain wilderness of northeastern New York State. From 360-degree mountaintop views to dramatic waterfalls and pristine ponds, it takes readers to 47 of the most scenic locations, some well-known and others off the beaten path.