Firetowers of the Catskills: Their History and Lore by Martin Podskoch
$20.00A chronicle of Catskill Mountain fire towers that one stood vigil looking out for any signs of smoke that could lead to devastating fires.
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An Unforgiving Land: Hardscrabble Life in the Trapps, a Vanished Shawangunk Mountain Hamlet
$24.95The story of a few hardy families who scratched out a living atop the Shawangunk Mountains, defying an unforgiving and isolated terrain. For generations they lived off the land, working…
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Around Neversink: From the Rondout Reservoir to the Neversink Reservoir
$24.99This beautifully illustrated book of rare photos is a delightful visual trip. By Carol Gridley Smythe, all profits and royalties are donated to the museum.
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Chains, Links and Gavels: The Surveyor in the Courtroom
$12.50Land surveyor Norm Van Valkenburgh shares two boundary disputes that ended in trials, one in the western Catskills and one in the Shawnagunks. By Norman J. Van Valkenburgh.
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The Other Side of Time: Essays by “The Catskill Geologist”
$15.00Geological insights from the Catskills and Hudson Valley. By Robert Titus, 152 pages, illustrated.
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Sullivan County Tales and Sketches
$15.00Crane’s earliest published pieces, all about Sullivan County, reveal the beginnings of his development as a writer and the themes that later develop into his famous novels. By Stephen Crane, edited with an introduction by R.W. Stallman, 151 pages.
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Fond Memories: Northern Sullivan County, New York, It’s History and Lore
$15.00Covering the Hardenbergh Patent, Dr. Edward Livingston, the Anti-Rent War, the O&W Railroad, tourism’s heyday, the acid factories, schools, shops and country life. By Shirley Tempel Fulton, 130 pages, illustrated.
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Picturesque Catskills
$29.95This classic turn-of-the-century pictorial work on Greene County townships contains over 600 original illustrations, and a horseback travelogue of the back roads including interviews and bits of history. Never before or since has the architecture, people, and their various occupations been documented in such detail.
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The Heart of the Catskills
$15.00The story of the region around Slide Mountain, including the earliest settlers, tanneries, visits of famous people, the Ulster & Delaware RR and the dawn of the tourism era.
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Time and the Valley: Story of the Upper Rondout and Neversink Valleys
Original price was: $27.00.$20.00Current price is: $20.00.This wonderful book thoroughly covers the history of the valleys. Indexed, 174 pages.