Research Catalog

Title

Tales from the Adirondack foothills / by Howard Thomas ; sketches by John Mahaffy.

Author

Thomas, Howard, 1898-1969

Publication

Prospect, N.Y. : Prospect Books, ©1976.

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Details

Description

viii, 150 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Subject

• Folklore
• Folklore
• folklore (culture-related concept)
• New York (State) > History > Folklore
• Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.) > History > Folklore
• New York (État) > Histoire > Folklore
• Adirondack, Monts (N.Y.) > Histoire > Folklore
• New York (State)
• New York (State) > Adirondack Mountains

Genre/Form

• Folklore
• History

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• War and Indians -- Piskaret -- Big mouth and the rat -- The stars and stripes -- War touches the foothills -- Han Yerry and the Papoose -- Little Paul -- The Indian mother -- Indians and Indian killers -- Pioneers -- The last days of a baron -- General Floyd and the measly pig -- Mr. Boon was impractical -- Dutch scholar -- Boon's bridge -- Daughter of an emperor -- Lady in waiting -- And froze to death -- The state of religion -- Welsh pioneers -- Chapels on the hills -- The beloved preacher -- The Madogians -- The state of religion -- Russian landmark -- Woman with courage -- Camp meeting -- Growing pains -- The leaping water -- The old sow -- General training -- The iron horse -- The cataract boys -- A tannery for a house -- Hinckley of Hinckley
• The drums roll -- Lincoln's first portrait -- The conkling rifles -- Colonel Wheelock's auction -- Seward and the diplomats -- A captain's letter -- Grant comes to town -- He rode with Custer -- Foothills characters -- The fabulous doctor -- Uncle Jake Lewis -- Major Sam Dustin -- Atwell Martin -- Kettle Jones -- Dingle Dangle Jones -- Uncle Ed's wedding suit -- The north woods -- Jock's Lake -- Mountain home -- Horace goes a fishin' -- The Brown's tract road -- The wooden-legged railroad -- Adirondack slavery -- A black river thaw -- Horse and buggy days -- Up in a balloon -- A glow in the night -- President and first lady -- Five and dime -- According to Bijah -- The gypsy's grave -- Boody's image gallery -- The foothills come of age -- The red and black -- They met head on -- Man-made lakes -- The Battle of Boonville -- The last log drive -- Softball madness -- The foothills today

ISBN

• 0913710032
• 9780913710036

OCLC

• 5902100
• SCSB-10697013

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library