PURPLE MOUNTAIN PRESS BOOKS IN PRINT 2009 You may search this site by author, title or subject. Search our Site: sitemap Subjects: Native Americans and Ethnic Groups • Colonial History • Transportation - Maritime Folklore - Folklife • Outdoor Recreation • Art and Architecture • Literature Regions: The Catskills • The Hudson Valley • The Mohawk Valley - Central New York The Adirondacks • The Champlain Valley • New York City and Its Watershed Special interests: Horticulture • Regional Mysteries FOLKLORE - FOLKLIFE A Catskill Woodsman: Mike Todd's Story As told by Norman Studer 122 pages, illustrated, 5.5 x 8.5, index, 1988, third printing $12.50 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press reprint Mike Todd (1877-1960) was a bear hunter, a fire observer, a water witch, a raftsman, a quarryman, a musician, a poacher, but most of all, he was a storyteller, the central Catskills most famous. Dutch Schultz and His Lost Catskills' Treasure John Conway 40 pages, illustrated, 5.5 x 8.5, 2000 6.50 booklet--A Purple Mountain Press original One of America's most enduring lost treasure legends is that of Dutch Schultz, who many think secreted a vast fortune in or near the Central Catskills' hamlet of Phoenicia. 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. CATSKILL MOUNTAIN BLUESTONE Alf Evers, Robert Titus, and Tim Weidner co-published with the New York State Folklore Society "Scores of new mines have been opened in the last six years, and many old ones have been reactivated. Bluestone, which had shrunk to little more than memories-is now a $100 million-a-year industry, located mostly in economically depressed Delaware and Broome Counties in the Catskills." --The New York Times, May 13, 2008. Alf Evers tells of "Bluestone Lore and Bluestone Men." Robert Titus' chapter is on Bluestone Geology and Time Weidner writes about existing quarries. Ordering Information Homepage • Categories Copyright © 2009 Purple Mountain Press. All rights reserved.
PURPLE MOUNTAIN PRESS BOOKS IN PRINT 2009
You may search this site by author, title or subject.
Subjects: Native Americans and Ethnic Groups • Colonial History • Transportation - Maritime Folklore - Folklife • Outdoor Recreation • Art and Architecture • Literature Regions: The Catskills • The Hudson Valley • The Mohawk Valley - Central New York The Adirondacks • The Champlain Valley • New York City and Its Watershed Special interests: Horticulture • Regional Mysteries
A Catskill Woodsman: Mike Todd's Story As told by Norman Studer 122 pages, illustrated, 5.5 x 8.5, index, 1988, third printing $12.50 paperback--A Purple Mountain Press reprint Mike Todd (1877-1960) was a bear hunter, a fire observer, a water witch, a raftsman, a quarryman, a musician, a poacher, but most of all, he was a storyteller, the central Catskills most famous. Dutch Schultz and His Lost Catskills' Treasure John Conway 40 pages, illustrated, 5.5 x 8.5, 2000 6.50 booklet--A Purple Mountain Press original One of America's most enduring lost treasure legends is that of Dutch Schultz, who many think secreted a vast fortune in or near the Central Catskills' hamlet of Phoenicia. 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. CATSKILL MOUNTAIN BLUESTONE Alf Evers, Robert Titus, and Tim Weidner co-published with the New York State Folklore Society "Scores of new mines have been opened in the last six years, and many old ones have been reactivated. Bluestone, which had shrunk to little more than memories-is now a $100 million-a-year industry, located mostly in economically depressed Delaware and Broome Counties in the Catskills." --The New York Times, May 13, 2008. Alf Evers tells of "Bluestone Lore and Bluestone Men." Robert Titus' chapter is on Bluestone Geology and Time Weidner writes about existing quarries.
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