The Catskills: Its History and How It Changed America

by Stephen M. Silverman and Raphael D. Silver

Book Overview

The Catskills ("Cat Creek" in Dutch), America's original frontier, northwest of New York City, with its seven hundred thousand acres of forest land preserve and its five counties--Delaware, Greene, Sullivan, Ulster, Schoharie; America's first great vacationland; the subject of the nineteenth-century Hudson River School paintings that captured the almost godlike majesty of the mountains and landscapes, the skies, waterfalls, pastures, cliffs . . ...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030727215X
• ISBN13: 9780307272157
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.9" x 9.4"