Adirondack Wilderness: A Story of Man and NatureA history of New York State's Adirondack Park, the largest public park in the U.S.--and the men and women who tried to tame it. |
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... camps . On long drives portable camps followed the men like the chuck wagons on cattle drives out west . At any ... camp cook was a man to be respected and left alone since he did all the baking , stewing , and coffee making . After ...
... camps . On long drives portable camps followed the men like the chuck wagons on cattle drives out west . At any ... camp cook was a man to be respected and left alone since he did all the baking , stewing , and coffee making . After ...
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... camps , " as both lean - to's and lavish man- sions were called in the Adirondacks . " Going up to camp , " became almost synonymous to " going to the Adirondacks . " One prominent Boston family , for instance , built a camp in the High ...
... camps , " as both lean - to's and lavish man- sions were called in the Adirondacks . " Going up to camp , " became almost synonymous to " going to the Adirondacks . " One prominent Boston family , for instance , built a camp in the High ...
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... camp phenom- enon exploded ; by 1915 , more than 300 private camps for affluent children existed . " Anything can happen now ... , " wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel , The Great Gatsby , which epitomized the 1920s , " anything at ...
... camp phenom- enon exploded ; by 1915 , more than 300 private camps for affluent children existed . " Anything can happen now ... , " wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald in his novel , The Great Gatsby , which epitomized the 1920s , " anything at ...
Contents
Maps and Man in New York State | 3 |
The Final Frontier | 8 |
How a Hat Won the West | 18 |
Copyright | |
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