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Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Anti-rent troubles
ISBN : WISC:89067471656
Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
ISBN : OCLC:801536418
Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438485416
When Jay Gould died in 1892 he left behind an estate worth the equivalent of seventy-eight billion in today's dollars. He also left behind a reputation as one of Wall Street's most shrewd, astute, and (some said) manipulative operators. Long before his adventures in finance, the future "robber baron" was a young man on the make in his native Catskills, working as a surveyor and mapmaker in his natal place of Delaware County, where he had grown up side by side with the future writer and naturalist John Burroughs. Originally published in 1856, when Gould was just twenty, Gould's History of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York is based on primary sources and original testimony from second and third generation settlers, many of them Gould's own friends and cousins. The book continues to be an important source on the first settlement of the region and is highly regarded by scholars. This edition features a new introduction by Edward Renehan, the biographer of both Gould and John Burroughs.
Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
ISBN : OCLC:317515254
Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:866146435
Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
ISBN : OCLC:78044811
Author : Jay 1836-1892 Cn Gould
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015212026
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
ISBN : OCLC:78044811
Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
ISBN : OCLC:878449799
Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
ISBN : OCLC:49869136
Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
ISBN : 0788419218
Author : Jay Gould
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846
ISBN : LCCN:01014078
Author : Jeptha Root Simms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : YALE:39002015057327
Author : Stephen M. Silverman,Raphael D. Silver
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307272157
The Catskills (“Cat Creek” in Dutch), America’s original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties—Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America’s first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and landscapes, the skies, waterfalls, pastures, cliffs . . . refuge and home to poets and gangsters, tycoons and politicians, preachers and outlaws, musicians and spiritualists, outcasts and rebels . . . Stephen Silverman and Raphael Silver tell of the turning points that made the Catskills so vital to the development of America: Henry Hudson’s first spotting the distant blue mountains in 1609; the New York State constitutional convention, resulting in New York’s own Declaration of Independence from Great Britain and its own constitution, causing the ire of the invading British army . . . the Catskills as a popular attraction in the 1800s, with the construction of the Catskill Mountain House and its rugged imitators that offered WASP guests “one-hundred percent restricted” accommodations (“Hebrews will knock vainly for admission”), a policy that remained until the Catskills became the curative for tubercular patients, sending real-estate prices plummeting and the WASP enclave on to richer pastures . . . Here are the gangsters (Jack “Legs” Diamond and Dutch Schultz, among them) who sought refuge in the Catskill Mountains, and the resorts that after World War II catered to upwardly mobile Jewish families, giving rise to hundreds of hotels inspired by Grossinger’s, the original “Disneyland with knishes”—the Concord, Brown’s Hotel, Kutsher’s Hotel, and others—in what became known as the Borscht Belt and Sour Cream Alps, with their headliners from movies and radio (Phil Silvers, Eddie Cantor, Milton Berle, et al.), and others who learned their trade there, among them Moss Hart (who got his start organizing summer theatricals), Sid Caesar, Lenny Bruce, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, and Joan Rivers. Here is a nineteenth-century America turning away from England for its literary and artistic inspiration, finding it instead in Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” and his childhood recollections (set in the Catskills) . . . in James Fenimore Cooper’s adventure-romances, which provided a pastoral history, describing the shift from a colonial to a nationalist mentality . . . and in the canvases of Thomas Cole, Asher B. Durand, Frederick Church, and others that caught the grandeur of the wilderness and that gave texture, color, and form to Irving’s and Cooper’s imaginings. Here are the entrepreneurs and financiers who saw the Catskills as a way to strike it rich, plundering the resources that had been likened to “creation,” the Catskills’ tanneries that supplied the boots and saddles for Union troops in the Civil War . . . and the bluestone quarries whose excavated rock became the curbs and streets of the fast-growing Eastern Seaboard. Here are the Catskills brought fully to life in all of their intensity, beauty, vastness, and lunacy.
Author : Francis Perego Harper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Slavery
ISBN : MINN:31951001490724H
