Freedom in the Wilds: A Saga of the AdirondacksA history and a look at the possible future of the Adirondack area of New York and protecting it as a wilderness perserve and state park. |
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Page 60
... Brook . A shack he had built on the cowfield was hauled up by oxen on sledges to a site he cleared by the brook in 1888 . " Icy Brook Camp , " enlarged through the years , was where my childhood summers were spent beginning in 1895 ...
... Brook . A shack he had built on the cowfield was hauled up by oxen on sledges to a site he cleared by the brook in 1888 . " Icy Brook Camp , " enlarged through the years , was where my childhood summers were spent beginning in 1895 ...
Page 71
... Brook to Wolf Jaws and down Wedge Brook to the West River Trail - was cut later in his memory and is still kept up as the W. A. White Trail . My father and some friends marked a trail to Fairy Ladder Falls on Nippletop at the upper end ...
... Brook to Wolf Jaws and down Wedge Brook to the West River Trail - was cut later in his memory and is still kept up as the W. A. White Trail . My father and some friends marked a trail to Fairy Ladder Falls on Nippletop at the upper end ...
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... Brook Camp . In a very few min- utes the uneven sloping ground was covered by a solid sheet of water that seemed about two inches deep . I was only seven but I can still see that sheet of water moving toward the brook . This cloudburst ...
... Brook Camp . In a very few min- utes the uneven sloping ground was covered by a solid sheet of water that seemed about two inches deep . I was only seven but I can still see that sheet of water moving toward the brook . This cloudburst ...
Contents
PREFACE | 15 |
SETTLERS AND SUMMER GUESTS | 38 |
ADIRONDACK MOUNTAIN RESERVE AND | 61 |
Copyright | |
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