Arthur G. Adams has nurtured a lifelong interest in the Hudson River and its surrounding region. He has spent much of his life exploring its highways, byways, waterways, and foot trails from the Atlantic Coastal inlets to the Catskill and Berkshire Mountain Peaks. The Hudson Through the Years chronicles the history of the Hudson River region of New York State through five centuries, from its early inhabitants: its main Native American tribes and early Dutch and English settlers, through its current day residents. Tracing ...
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Arthur G. Adams has nurtured a lifelong interest in the Hudson River and its surrounding region. He has spent much of his life exploring its highways, byways, waterways, and foot trails from the Atlantic Coastal inlets to the Catskill and Berkshire Mountain Peaks. The Hudson Through the Years chronicles the history of the Hudson River region of New York State through five centuries, from its early inhabitants: its main Native American tribes and early Dutch and English settlers, through its current day residents. Tracing the history of the region from the American Revolution to the present, Adams incorporates the spread of industrialism, infrastructure, and trasnportation with tales of the early steamboats, ferries, horseboats, the Erie, Champlain, Iron and Anthracite canals, through the development of the trolleys, railroads, and automobiles. The book also includes details about the art and architecture of the region. Included in the book are data about New York's governors, political administrations, U.S. presidents, and British sovereigns, ferry and train routes and schedules, maps and tables, and statistics for population growth over the last five centuries. Also included is a helpful selected bibliography.
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Good. Light general wear. May have light notes/highlighting. dust jacket, shelfwear, bumped corners, scuffed, stain on rear flap, tear on front edge, Hardcover.
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Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book is in nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight. Small name written on first page. Dust jacket has a small closed tear and chip on top edge.
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Fine in fine jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. xx+ 334 pp. with general index, vessel index. Illustrated with photographs and reproductions. An absorbing general history of the Hudson River from the earliest days of the Native Americans and the discovery by the Europeans, through the periods of Dutch and English settlement, the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, the coming of the steamboat, the War of 1818, the era of ferries and horseboats, the coming of the Erie and Champlain Canals, and into the 20th century.
