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Blacks in the Adirondacks A History
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Title
Blacks in the Adirondacks [electronic resource] : A History / Sally E. Svenson.
ISBN
0815654219
9780815654216
0815610939
9780815610939 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780815635550 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Edition
First edition.
Published
Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2018 American Studies.
Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2018 US Regional Studies, New England and Mid Atlantic.
Other formats
Online version: Svenson, Sally E., author Blacks in the Adirondacks First edition. Syracuse : Syracuse University Press, 2017
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 10, 2018
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Slavery: backdrop to the Adirondack story
Gerrit Smith: Essex and Franklin County colonists
Soldiers of the Civil War
Wartime and early postwar migration
Making a living
Railroad building
The summer resort industry
Resort entertainment: employees and students
Baseball, and a little basketball
Saranac Lake and tuberculosis
Community life in Saranac Lake
Popular culture: professional performers
Lake Placid and the John Brown Memorial Association
Public and publicly supported institutions
Miners of Moriah
Pullman porters: railroad stories
The twentieth-century military
Tourism
1940 to 1950 and beyond.
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