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The Catskills
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 920

The Catskills

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1982
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  • Publisher: Unknown

"The Catskills" tells the story of one of America's most historically rich and romantic regions. Alf Evers evokes the special charm of the Catskills region with explorations of its flora and fauna, legends, superstitions, and natural and unnatural wonders. Packed with illustrations detailing the history of the Catskills from the time of its first settling through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, the Borcht Belt years, the famed Woodstock festival, up to the present, "The Catskills" is a memorable book that does full justice to a vital vein of our American heritage.

Trouble in Paradise
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

Trouble in Paradise

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-11-04
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  • Publisher: BRILL

A collection of highly readable critical essays (1977-2023) by a leader in the field of American social art history. Among the subjects Alan Wallach explores are the art of Thomas Cole, patronage of the Hudson River School, so-called “Luminism,” the rise of the American art museum, the historiography of American art, scholarship and the art market, as well as the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Rockwell Kent, Grant Wood, Philip Evergood, and Norman Rockwell. Throughout, Wallach employs a materialist approach to argue against traditional scholarship that considered American art and art institutions in isolation from their social, historical, and ideological contexts.

The Greene County Catskills
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Greene County Catskills

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Trout Fishing in the Catskills
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 771

Trout Fishing in the Catskills

Ed Van Put begins this important book with the history of native brook trout and offers little-known details about their sizes, range, and demise from over-fishing, the growth of streamside industries, and the introduction of competitive species. Sweeping in its scope, Trout Fishing in the Catskills tells a thorough tale of the often tumultuous history of fishing in the Catskills. With a scope of over a century, Van Put tells of the Catskill’s frontier fishing beginnings and tracks the rise, fall, and eventual revival of the fisheries. Throughout, this is a history of people and methods as well as rivers, and there are profiles of Theodore Gordon, Art Flick, Harry and Elsie Darbee, Sparse ...

In the Catskills
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

In the Catskills

  • Categories: Art

With selections from Isaac Bashevis Singer, Allegra Goodman, Moss Hart, TaniaGrossinger, and many others, this volume is a tribute to the legendary Jewishresort area of the Catskills. 40 halftones. 26 figures.

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1026

N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1884
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Catalogue of the New York State Library: Subject-Index of the Law library, From Its Foundation to Dec. 31, 1882
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

Catalogue of the New York State Library: Subject-Index of the Law library, From Its Foundation to Dec. 31, 1882

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Criminal Justice Agencies in Region 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170
Gazetteer of the State of New York
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 812

Gazetteer of the State of New York

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1860
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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