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Fire towers of the Catskills : their history and lore / by Ma[r]tin Podskoch.
- Title
- Fire towers of the Catskills : their history and lore / by Ma[r]tin Podskoch.
- Author
- Podskoch, Martin, 1943-
- Publication
- Fleischmanns, N.Y. : Purple Mountain Press, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | SD421.375 .P63 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 120 p. : ill., maps; 28 cm.
- Summary
- At one time there were twenty-three fire towers in and around the Catskill Mountains. The author has researched the history fo each and gathered the stories of the rangers who supervised them, the observers who kept watch on the forest and the pilots who replaced them.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Anecdotes
- History
- Anecdotes.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 119).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Fire towers of the Catskills : their history -- Hunter Mountain -- Balsam Lake Mountain -- Belleayre Mountain -- Twadell Point -- Mohonk -- High Point -- Slide Mountain -- Mount Tremper -- Red Hill -- Chapin Hill -- Gallis Hill -- Pocatello Mountain -- Mount Utsayantha -- Gilbert Lake -- Rock Rift -- Hooker Hill -- Page Pond -- Petersburg -- Leonard Hill -- Roosa Gap -- Graham -- Overlook Mountain -- Bramley Mountain -- Aircraft surveillance replaces fire towers.
- ISBN
- 1930098103 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^00040246^
- OCLC
- 44090534
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library