The Catskills: Painters, Writers, and Tourists in the Mountains, 1820-1895

The Catskills: Painters, Writers, and Tourists in the Mountains, 1820-1895
ISBN-10
0943651050
ISBN-13
9780943651057
Series
The Catskills
Category
Design / Graphic Arts / General
Pages
205
Language
English
Published
1987
Publisher
Hudson River Museum
Author
Kenneth Myers

Description

... "A Sketch of the Mineralogical History of the State of New York," Medical Repository 1 (1804); and D. W. Barton, ... James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers, or the Sources of the Susquehanna; a Descriptive Tale (1823; reprint, Albany, ...

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