PURPLE MOUNTAIN PRESS
BOOKS ABOUT NEW YORK STATE:
ITS HISTORY AND ITS PEOPLE
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NATIVE AMERICANS
The Adirondacks and Iroquois
ADIRONDACK: Of Indians and Mountains, 1535-1838
Stephen J. Sulavik
246 pages, illustrated, 32 color plates, 12 x 9, 2005
39.00 hardcover--A Purple Mountain Press original
This unique work presents the early history, based on contemporary accounts and maps (many reproduced here for the first time), of the Adirondack and Iroquois Indians and the Adirondack Mountains.
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ETHNIC GROUPS
their family histories among early residents of New York State.
The Jews
The Jews of Westchester:
A Social History
Baila R. Shargel and Harold W. Drimmer
268 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, 1994
29.00 14.50 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press book
The Jews of America's first suburb fought for their rights, established a
political presence, and built robust religious, secular and educational
institutions. This is their story--it spans 300 years.
Out of print. Bookstore returns available only.
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The Welsh
Memory Stones:
A History of the Welsh-Americans in Central New York and Their Churches
Jay G. Williams III
239 pages, illustrated, 6 x 9, index
16.50 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press original
The story of America's largest Welsh settlement from 1795 to the present.
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NEW YORK WOMEN
Breaking Trails: Remarkable Women of the Adirondacks
Peggy Lynn and Sandra Weber
182 pages, illustrated, 7 x 10, 2004
18.00 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press original
The accomplishments of Adirondack women have remained unknown and unsung for too long. No longer! Peggy Lynn is singing songs about Lydia and others, proclaiming “Mountain women can be heroes.” Sandra Weber is
digging through archives and recovering pieces of women’s history. Now
Peggy and Sandra have joined together to present the stories of remarkable Adirondack women--women who display courage, intelligence, fortitude, and backcountry buffoonery.
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HISTORY
Visions of New York State: The Historical Paintings
of L. F. Tantillo
L. F. Tantillo et al.
152 pages, color illustrations, 11 x 8.5, 1996
37.50 SALE 19.50 paperback
In our opinion L. F. Tantillo is the finest painter of NYS subjects
working today. This lush book also contains five essays by noted
historians. A splendid book to own or to give.
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NEW YORK IN THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR
Through So Many Dangers
The Memoirs and Adventures of Robert Kirk, Late of the Royal Highland Regiment
Edited by Ian M. McCulloch and Timothy J. Todish
Introduction by Stephen Brumwell and Artwork by Robert Griffing
174 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, 2004
20.00 Paperback--a Purple Mountain Press original
This is the first reprint in over 250 years of a young Scot's personal experiences of battle and captivity in the wilderness of North America during the French and Indian War. This small, obscure book was first published in Limerick, Ireland, 1775. Kirkwood's story constitutes a very rare voice-from-the-ranks account of the conflict, a remarkable chronicle by a private soldier of some of the sharpest woods fighting and skirmishing ever encountered by the British army. At a time when scholarly books and articles on colonial North America's 'backcountry' are emerging thick and fast, Through So Many Dangers offers a fresh and compelling voice from a man who experienced that violent and fascinating world first hand—and who, against all the odds, lived to tell the tale. The book is fully annotated and indexed.
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America's First First World War
The French and Indian War, 1754-1763
Timothy J. Todish
124 pages, illustrated, 6 x 9, 2002
15.00 Paperback--a Purple Mountain Press original
Contrary to the belief of many people, America did not fight her first World War in the trenches of Western Europe in 1917- 1918. The first world war in which America was involved was fought on our own native soil, with an impact on our nation's history at least as signifigant as that of the 1917-1918 war. Twenty years before the outbreak of the American Revolution, the colonies were locked in a struggle for their very existence- a struggle that rarely receives more thann a passing word in modern day history books.
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The Annotated and Illustrated Journals
of Major Robert Rogers
Timothy J. Todish and illustrated by Gary S. Zaboly
341 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, 2002
29.00 Paperback--a Purple Mountain Press original
Major Robert Rogers of the Rangers is not only one of the most famous men to come out of Colonial America, he is also one of the most fascinating. This book, reprinted from the rare 1769 Dublin edition of hie Journals, allows the major to tell portions of his life in his own words. To supplement his accounts, numerous annotations have been added by Timothy Todish to give a broader picture of the events described. Most are from eyewitnesses, or at least contemporaries of Rogers. Later secondary sources are used sparingly. Occasionally an annotation, or series of annotations, are used to present tyhe background for the action. Gary Zaboly's wonderful original illustrations, along with his well-written captions, add an invaluable dimension to this edition. They also fill in some gaps in his life that are not specifically covered in the text of the Journals.
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NEW YORK IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Defending the Hudson in the American Revolution
Lincoln Diamant and George S. Gardner
48 pages, illustrated, 5.5 x 8.5, 2004
6.50 booklet
From the earliest days of the Revolution, it was an article of faith among American and British military planners that whoever dominated the 150-mile-long Hudson Valley would control the course of the war. The authors have drawn on a series of contemporary nautical charts to pinpoint the location of each patriot action in defense of the river.
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D I V E !
The Story of David Bushnell and His Remarkable 1776 Submarine (and Torpedo)
Lincoln Diamant
This true story of the American Revolution tells how a secretive Yankee
genius, David Bushnell, set his sights on the Royal Navy and built the
world's first submarine to carry the world's first torpedo.
The Battle of Fort Montgomery:
A Short History
Jan Sheldon Conley
39 pages, illustrated, 5.5 x 8.5, 2002
6.50 booklet
Patriots under Brig. Gen. George Clinton put up a brave battle to defend the Hudson Highlands at Forts Montgomery and Clinton. Fort Montgomery is now the state's newest historic site. It was opened to the public on Oct. 6, 2002.
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Marinus Willett: Defender of the Northern Frontier
Larry Lowenthal
104 pages, illustrated, 6 x 9, index, 2000
15.00 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press original
During the War for Independence, citizens like Marinus Willett truly risked their "lives, fortunes and sacred honor" to establish a republic in which they fervently believed. Willett's bravery and unflinching dedication to the cause of liberty made him a hero of Fort Stanwix in 1777 and saved the Northern Frontier for the patriot cause in 1781.
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Sybil Ludington: The Call to Arms
V. T. Dacquino
104 pages, illustrated, 5.5 x 8.5, 2000
15.00 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press original
Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington earned a place in American history on a rainy night in 1777 when she rode 40 miles to muster her father's regiment to the defense of New York and Connecticut.
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TRANSPORTATION
Railroads • Trolleys • Maritime - Regional • Maritime - National • Canals
Railroads
Remembering the New York, Ontario & Western Railway
Oswego to Sidney and Branches
John Taibi
416 pages, 400+ illustrations, 8.5 x 11, 2005
49.00 signed, limited edition hardcover
32.00 paperback
A Purple Mountain Press original
This is an historical and personal account of the O&W's Northern Division.
Built as a part of the New York & Oswego Midland Railroad during 1869-70,
this portion of the New York, Ontario & Western Railway meandered from one
small community to another, those villages embracing the personality and
charm of the country railroad they helped to build. Exacting history and
personal remembrances are the forte of this latest volume to deal with the
lore of the Old & Weary. This is John Taibi's sixth book to
perpetuate the memory of the NYO&WRy.
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Mountain Railroads of New York State, Volume 1:
Where Did the Tracks Go in the Western Adirondacks?
Michael Kudish
263 pages, 100+ maps and illustrations, 8.5 x 11, 2005
25.00 paperback
A Purple Mountain Press original
The first of four volumes to trace all of the railroad grades, existing or abandoned, in the Adirondack and Catskill Mountains. It expands on the information published in Railroads of the Adirondacks: A History (Purple Mountain Press, 1996) with 20-25 percent more text and maps.
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Rails Along the Oriskany:
A History of the New York, Ontario & Western's Utica Division
and Rome Branch
John Taibi
296 pages, 210 illustrations, 8.5 x 11, 2003
25.00 paperback
A Purple Mountain Press original
This is the first history of the O&W and its predessesors in Central New York. It served small communities and large, made industries prosper, and is fondly rememembered today more than 40 years after it was abandoned.
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Twenty-five Years on the ND&C
A History of the Newburgh, Dutchess & Connecticut Railroad
Bernard L. Rudberg
207 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, 2002
22.50 paperback
35.00 hardcover (signed/limited ed.)--A Purple Mountain Press original
The ND&C was the first railroad to run east and west across Dutchess County. Surviving record books provide an intimate glimpse of this early enterprise.
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Bridging the Hudson:
The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge and Its Connecting Rail Lines,
A Many-Faceted History
Carleton Mabee
296 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, 2001; reprinted 2006
24.00 paperback----A Purple Mountain Press original
The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge was the first bridge of any kind to be built over the Hudson between New York and Albany, and this book, by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carleton Mabee, is the first comprehensive history of the bridge and the rail lines it served.
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The Ulster and Delaware:
Railroad Through the Catskills
Gerald M. Best
210 pages, 320 illustratioms, 8.5 x 11, 2000, reprint
65.00 hardcover--A Purple Mountain Press reprint co-published with Golden West Books
The only history of the important line from Kingston to Oneonta that opened the central Catskills to tourism.
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Pioneer American Railroads: The Mohawk and Hudson & The Saratoga and Schenectady
F. Daniel Larkin
96 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, 1995
25.00 hardcover--A Purple Mountain Press original
These were the first two railroads in New York State and the third and fourth in the country
to successfully utilize locomotive power in their regular operations. This is the
story of their operations, organization and innovations. There is also a chapter
on the Buffalo Railroad.
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Trolleys
Trolleys to Glen Haven
Charles R. Lowe
53 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, 2000, index, first edition
12.50 booklet--A Purple Mountain Press original
The Glen Haven line connected downtown Rochester with the Glen Haven resort and amusement park area at Glen Haven on Irondequoit Bay.
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Trolley Trips Through the Hudson Valley, 1911
The Trolley Press
24 pages, illustrated, 5.5 x 8.5, 1911, reprint, 2nd printing
6.00 booklet--A Purple Mountain Press reprint
A guide to the maze of interurban trolley lines that once linked communities in the upper Hudson Valley from the City of Hudson north to Warrensburg or northwest to Sacandaga Lake.
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Uptown--Downtown; Horsecars--Trolley Cars;
Urban Transportation in Kingston, New York, 1866-1930
Glendon L. Moffet
152 pages, illustrated, 6 x 9, index, 1997
12.50--A Purple Mountain Press book
Horsecars replaced omnibuses in the 1860s and were, in turn, replaced by electric
trolleys, but few communities saw such bitter rivalry between two competing trolley
lines as did Kingston.
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Maritime - New York Regional
Sails and Steam in the Mountains: A Maritime and Military History of Lake George and Lake Champlain
Russell P. Bellico
See Lake Champlain Section
The Old Skillypot and Other Ferryboats of Rondout,
Kingston, and Rhinecliff
Glendon L. Moffet
127 pages, illustrated, 6 x 9, index, 1997
12.50 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press original
Ferries plied between Kingston-Rondout and what is now Rhinecliff from the earliest
times. They also ferried passengers and freight across and along Rondout Creek. This is
the story of the rise and fall of those ferries, including the popular
Skillypot.
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Maritime - National
Queen of Sea Routes:
The Merchants and Miners Transportation Company
Edward A. Mueller
185 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, 2000
37.50 hardcover--a Purple Mountain Press original co-published with the Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA)
Passenger and freight ships from this line steamed into East Coast ports for a hundred years beginning in 1852.
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SS Independence SS Constitution:
Great American Ocean Liners
William H. Miller
116 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, 2001
22.50 paperback--a Purple Mountain Press original co-published with the Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA)
The story of the two beloved liners that were built 50 years ago by American Export Lines. The Independence still sails proudly for American Hawaii Cruises.
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The Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah
Savannah Line
Edward A. Mueller
237 pages, 226 illustrations, 8.5 x 11, 2001
29.50 paperback--a Purple Mountain Press original co-published with the Steamship Historical Society of America (SSHSA)
The Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah- generally known as the Savannah Line- was chartered in 1872 to operate passenger and cargo steamships between Savannah and New York. A subsidiary of the Central Georgia Railway, the company was to provide a major travle link over the next 70 years moving agricultural products, principally cotton, from Georgia and Alabama to New York and Boston. The combined effect of development of an adequate national highway network, the depression, and the loss of its fleet in World War II caused its liquidation in 1951.
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CANALS
A Link in the Great Chain:
A History of Chemung Canal
Gary Emerson
100 pages, illustrated, 7 x 10, 2005
22.50 paperback
Co-published with the Chemung County Historical Society, this is the only history of the canal that linked Elmira and vicinity to the Erie and New York's great chain of canals from 1833 to 1878.
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Life on a Canal Boat: The Journals of Theodore D. Bartley, 1861-1889
Russell P. Bellico, editor
Preface and postscript by Arthur B. Cohn, Director, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum
Transcribed from Bartley's 1500 pages of diary by Barbara B. Bartley
320 pages, 175 illustrations, 7 x 10, 2004
22.50 paperback
Co-published by the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and Purple Mountain Press provides an extraordinary window into the largely forgotten world of the canal boat era. This 29-year record begins in 1861 with Bartley’s purchase of a new sailing canal boat in Whitehall, NY, and traces his adventures with his wife and son aboard two additional canal boats on the canals and waterways of the Northeast. His daily entries and observations are one of the best records ever found of life onboard a canal boat.
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New York State Canals:
A Short History
F. Daniel Larkin
104 pages, illustrated, 5.5 x 8.5, 1998
12.00 paperback
This accessible history is the first treatment of all of the state's
canals in more than 90 years. F. Daniel Larkin is a SUNY Oneonta
professor and the author of Pioneer American
Railroads: The Mowhawk and Hudson & The Saratoga and Schenectady,
published by Purple Mountain Press and a biography of engineering genius
John B. Jervis.
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A Long Haul: The Story of the New
York State Barge Canal
Michele A. McFee
221 pages, illustrated, 8.5 x 11, 1998
25.00 paperback
This is the first history of the modern canal, which replaced the Erie in
1918 to allow the passage of 300-ton barges. It is illustrated with more
than 130 exceptional photographs from state archives and will stand as the
definitive history of this engineering wonder. Michele McFee is also the
author of Limestone Locks and Overgrowth: The
Rise and Descent of the Chenango Canal.
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Limestone Locks and Overgrowth:
The Rise and Descent of the Chenango Canal
Michele A. McFee
240 pages, 200 illustrations, 7 x 10, second printing, 1998
25.00 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press original
The Chenango Canal, a lateral canal of the very successful Erie,
connected Utica and Binghamton between 1837 and 1878, brought prosperity
to numerous towns along its path and was an engineering success story. This
is the only book in print on this subject. Michele McFee is also the
author of A Long Haul: The Story of the New York
State Barge Canal.
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LITERATURE
Sullivan County Tales and Sketches
Stephen Crane, edited with an introduction by R. W. Stallman and a preface by John Conway
151 pages, 5.5 x 8.5, 1995 reprint
15.00 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press classic
Crane's earliest published pieces, all about Sullivan County, reveal the beginnings of
his development of a writer and themes that would be developed later in his famous
novels.
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