The Catskills From Wilderness to Woodstock |
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| Author:
| Evers, Alf |
| ISBN: | 978-0-916346-81-2 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2023 |
| Publisher: | Purple Mountain Press, Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $79.00 |
Book Description:
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Purple Mountain Press is pleased to bring you this long-awaited reprint of celebrated Catskill historian Alf Evers' revised and updated history of the Catskills. With 87 illustrations, extensive footnotes, bibliography and index, this immensely readable history evokes the special charm of the region, its people, their enterprises, and the forces that impeded and impelled them as America itself evolved. Evers' work forms the basis of any serious historical study on the Catskills, and...
More DescriptionPurple Mountain Press is pleased to bring you this long-awaited reprint of celebrated Catskill historian Alf Evers' revised and updated history of the Catskills. With 87 illustrations, extensive footnotes, bibliography and index, this immensely readable history evokes the special charm of the region, its people, their enterprises, and the forces that impeded and impelled them as America itself evolved. Evers' work forms the basis of any serious historical study on the Catskills, and arguably remains the preeminent and most comprehensive work on the subject, written by a person who grew up in the shadow of these mountains.