The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness, Paperback - Paul Schneider

Reducere. His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non...

Reducere. The Adirondacks have been an Indigenous homeland for millennia, and the presence of Native people in the region was obvious but not well documented...

Reducere. In 1968 Fran and Jay Yardley, a young couple with pioneering spirit, moved to a remote corner of the Adirondacks to revive the long-abandoned but h...

The Adirondack State Park is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and Glacier National Parks combined. The park's 6 million acres o...

Reducere. Much of New York during the Revolutionary era was frontier wilderness, sparsely populated and bitterly divided. Although the only major campaign in...

Reducere. Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure...

Reducere. Explores the competing understandings of how best to manage the Adirondack Mountains. Philip G. Terrie introduces the key players and events that h...

Reducere. In this work Terrie offers an assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in American history. He brings to life the scientists and sc...

Reducere. "Schneider's thorough research and vivid writing create a fast-paced, moving story, one that is difficult to believe and impossible to forget." --T...

Reducere. Much of New York during the Revolutionary era was frontier wilderness, sparsely populated and bitterly divided. Although the only major campaign in...

Reducere. In this title, David Tatham demonstrates that Winslow Homer's 'Adirondack oils and watercolours constitute a highly original examination of the hum...

Reducere. In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the c...

The Very First Book on Camping in America and the Great Benefits of Wilderness TravelThis deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of original camp...

Reducere. This book relates the history of railroad activity during that robust era that witnessed the most intense timber harvest ever undertaken in the Adi...

Description"The best book about America's first modern secret service." --Washington Post Book World In the months before World War II, FDR prepare...

Reducere. The Very First Book on Camping in America and the Great Benefits of Wilderness TravelThis deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of original camp...

Reducere. A Wild Idea shares the complete story of the difficult birth of the Adirondack Park Agency (APA). The Adirondack region of New York's rural North C...

Reducere. With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--...

Reducere. "The whole power over the subject of religion is left exclusively to the State governments, to be acted upon according to their justice and the Sta...

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DescriptionFrom one of America's smartest political writers comes a "captivating and comprehensive journey" (#1 New York Times bestselling author D...

This lively history by the acclaimed author of Just Food and A Revolution in Eating follows the pecan from primordial Southern groves to the contem...

Reducere. In August 1858, William James Stillman, a painter and founding editor of the acclaimed but short-lived art journal The Crayon, organized a camping ...

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An award-winning historian recounts the history of American liberty through the stories of thirteen essential documentsNationalism is inevitable: I...

Alice, a young woman prone to intuitive insights and loyalty to the only family she has ever known, leaves England for the rigid colony of the Mass...

The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation's land primarily for recreation and conservation.Publ...

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With seemingly endless stories of school violence and suicide bombers filling today's headlines, Bath Massacre serves as a reminder that terrorism ...

Reducere. Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks transports the reader back in time to the days when steamboats, buckboards, and gas lighting were common. Jane an...

Reducere. Much more than a guidebook showing readers great places to hike with their canine companions in upstate New York, Doghiker is a dog owner's operati...

Reducere. Traversing the spectacular Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming is an unforgettable experience. The unspoiled mountain scenery along the highwa...

Reducere. The riveting true story of America's first modern military battle, its first military victory during World War One, and its first steps onto the wo...

The First Lady--Serial Killer The nurse from hell. Always cheerful, helpful, and sweet, nurse Jane Toppan was the last person you would suspect to ...

Reducere. The Battle of New Orleans was the climactic battle of America's ``forgotten war`` of 1812. Andrew Jackson led his ragtag corps of soldiers against ...

Reducere. Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, f...

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An articulate, compelling history of American battlefield medics.Publisher: Permuted PressAuthor(s): Michael CollinsNumber of pages: 304Publication...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes contemporary accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Again he turned hi...

Provides a detailed survey that blends Yellowstone National Park's past into its present and explores its likely future. The book covers the first ...

Reducere. In History Comics: The Roanoke Colony, Chris Schweizer separates fact from fiction and uncovers the secrets of one of America's most puzzling myste...

Reducere. The second, revised edition of a classic, 19th-century work which captures the pleasures of camping and canoeing in the Adirondacks. The letters of...

Reducere. Settled in the 1600s, Brooklyn Heights is one of New York s most historic neighborhoods. Its strategic location overlooking the harbor proved instr...

America's best days should still lie ahead. Here's the realistic and definitive path to get us there. The future doesn't just happen. It's a choice...