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The Old Guide's Story of the Northern Adirondacks : Reminiscences of Charles E. Merrill
by Welch, Fay (edit.)
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
Saranac, NY: Adirondack Yesteryears, Inc., 1973 Hard cover, 4to, in green cloth blocked with gold titles, in an olive green pictorial dust jacket, illustrated end papers, 224 pp, First Edition. Condition: Fine. In a Very Good dust jacket, with some fading to the spine, now in a mylar protector.** These are the edited reminiscences of Charles E. Merrill (d. 1935) about the early settlement of the Northern Adirondack Chateaugay Lakes region of New York, to the west of Lake Champlain. The Merrill family were first settlers in the years of westward expansion of the late eighteenth century, and gave their name to the area's first town. Merrill tells of land clearances , house and barn raisings, maple sugaring, and a whole variety of the pioneer existence in a series of very readable essays that read like short stories. Employed as a guide for hunters and other visitors, he also became an early voice for conservation. . First Edition . Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good . Illus. by Tom Welch.
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- Bookseller
- Dark and Stormy Night Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8944
- Title
- The Old Guide's Story of the Northern Adirondacks : Reminiscences of Charles E. Merrill
- Author
- Welch, Fay (edit.)
- Illustrator
- Tom Welch
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Adirondack Yesteryears, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Saranac, NY
- Date Published
- 1973
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