Books & Maps - Adirondack History

Noah John Rondeau, the original Adirondack Hermit, wrote daily diary entries to document his experiences in the “Cold River City”. To conceal incriminating information, he developed an enigmatic code. Attempts...

NEW third edition of this classic Adirondack Anthology! Writers of the past 400 years reflect the changing attitudes toward wilderness and the development of wild lands in the Adirondack Mountains....

Adirondack Archangels is a collection of essays by and about individuals who have worked to protect the Adirondack Park and its highest peaks. The writers and subjects are people whose...

Ecologist Anne LaBastille created the life that many people dream about. When she and her husband divorced, she needed a place to live. Through luck and perseverance, she found the...

Woodswoman II is the story of the author's decision to retreat farther, a half-mile behind her main cabin, and build a tiny cabin—fashioned after the one in Thoreau's Walden—in which...

The Tug Hill Commission has been providing critical support to local residents for the conservation and productive use of the region's valuable natural resources, and the development of economic opportunities...

People who already define their bliss as the moment when they cross over the “Blue Line” into the Adirondack Park will find The Adirondack Hermit and Us a most satisfactory...

This official book published with the Adirondack Mountain Club celebrates America's original hiking destination through breathtaking contemporary photography, maps, rarely seen archival photos, and a text that brings the history...

Old Forge: Gateway to the Adirondacks is a pictorial history of the transformation of an eighteenth-century lakeside clearing in the wilderness into one of the premier recreational destinations in New...

Spirits linger on the pine-covered slopes of the Adirondack Mountains that surround Old Forge. Books fly off the shelves at the Maxson House, and something—or someone—spies on the living from...

Often shrouded in an eerie mist, the Adirondack Mountains are a perfect backdrop to the mysterious and the haunted. Troubled spirits of former patients roam the campus of the historic...

Spirits are afoot amid Essex County s majestic mountains, awesome chasms and splendid lakes. The region conceals a haunted hinterland where specters of miners and murderers, servants and soldiers, suicides...