Research Catalog

Title

Making mountains [electronic resource] : New York City and the Catskills / David Stradling.

Author

Stradling, David.

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xxvii, 311 p., [20] p. of plates) : ill., maps.

Series Statement

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

Uniform Title

• Making mountains (Online)
• Weyerhaeuser environmental book.

Alternative Title

Making mountains (Online)

Subject

• Haynes family
• Rural-urban relations > New York (State) > Case studies
• Landscapes > New York (State) > Catskill Mountains > History
• Human ecology > New York (State) > Catskill Mountains > History
• Mountain life > New York (State) > Catskill Mountains > History
• Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) > Relations > New York (State) > New York
• New York (N.Y.) > Relations > New York (State) > Catskill Mountains
• Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) > Environmental conditions
• Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) > Biography
• Catskill Mountains (N.Y.) > Social life and customs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-288) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

Preface: The Haynes family of Haynes Hollow -- Introduction: Types of the permanent and unchanging -- A natural resource -- Envisioning mountains -- The mountain hotels -- Making wilderness -- Mountain water -- Moving mountains -- A suburb of New York -- Epilogue: Whose woods these are.

LCCN

2007019376

OCLC

ssj0000485716

Author

Stradling, David.

Title

Making mountains [electronic resource] : New York City and the Catskills / David Stradling.

Imprint

Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2007.

Series

Weyerhaeuser environmental books

Weyerhaeuser environmental book.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-288) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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