An Adirondack Chronology

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This work shows how expectations about land use, combined with interactions with nature have defined the Adirondacks. Outlining the disputes for the control of the land, the author introduces the key players from the residents, landholders, to preservationists and developers.

Composed of nearly 4,000 individual entries spanning five centuries, "Wicked Awesome Adirondack Chronology" offers a concise timeline to everyone, from seasoned historians to inquisitive laypersons. Ranging from first ascents to fastest known times, logging to landslides, hermits to hemlocks, avalanches to airplane crashes, every significant event that has ever taken place in the mighty Adirondack Mountains is now in the palm of your hand, a historical feat in itself.

In this work Terrie offers an assessment of the roles that the Adirondacks have played in American history. He brings to life the scientists and scholars, the travellers and sportsmen, the publicists and bureaucrats, who together have contributed to the wilderness aesthetic.