Download or read book Wicked Adirondacks written by Dennis Webster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the Adirondack Mountains are New York's most beautiful region, they have also been plagued by insidious crimes and the nasty escapades of notorious lawbreakers. In 1935, public enemy number one, Dutch Schultz, went on trial and was acquitted in an Adirondack courtroom. Crooks have tried creative methods to sidestep forestry laws that protect the flora of the state park. Members of the infamous Windfall Gang, led by Charles Wadsworth, terrorized towns and hid out in the high mountains until their dramatic 1899 capture. In the 1970s, the Adirondack Serial Killer, Robert Francis Garrow, petrified campers in the hills. Join local author Dennis Webster as he explores the wicked deeds and sinister characters hidden among the Adirondacks' peaks.
Download or read book Wicked Awesome Adirondack Chronology written by Erik Schlimmer and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Wicked River written by Jenny Milchman and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Wicked River is partly a who-is-my-husband-really story, partly a horror-in-the-wilderness story, and partly a Manhattan-family drama, all rolled up in elegantly propulsive prose, and shot through with sinister suspense."—LEE CHILD, New York Times bestselling author Six million acres of Adirondack forest separate Natalie and Doug Larson from civilization. For the newlyweds, an isolated backcountry honeymoon seems ideal-a chance to start their lives together with an adventure. But just as Natalie and Doug begin to explore the dark interiors of their own hearts, as well as the depths of their love for each other, it becomes clear that they are not alone in the woods. Because six million acres makes it easy for the wicked to hide. And even easier for someone to go missing for good. As they struggle with the worst the wilderness has to offer, a man watches them, wielding the forest like a weapon. He wants something from them more terrifying than death. And once they are near his domain, he will do everything in his power to make sure they never walk out again.
Download or read book At the Mercy of the Mountains written by Peter Bronski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-02-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Eiger Dreams, In the Zone: Epic Survival Stories from the Mountaineering World, and Not Without Peril, comes a new book that examines the thrills and perils of outdoor adventure in the “East’s greatest wilderness,” the Adirondacks.
Download or read book Murder of a Herkimer County Teacher written by Dennis Webster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The true case of Lydia ‘Lida’ Beecher, a school teacher, being killed by one of her former students . . . The book flows seamlessly” (Observer Dispatch). In 1914, Poland, New York, was a picturesque slice of small-town America. But that innocence was shattered with the shocking murder of beloved schoolteacher Lida Beecher at the hands of her former student Jean Gianini. At twenty-one years old, Lida wasn't much older than her students. The son of a successful furniture dealer, Jean had all the advantages in life, but he had been labeled as different by all who encountered him. The shocking murder brought the world’s best alienists to the packed Herkimer County Courthouse to try to prove that the teenager’s mental development precluded his guilt. Author Dennis Webster utilizes unprecedented access to court documents to reveal details of the sensational crime never before made known to the public. Includes photos!
Download or read book Haunted Adirondacks written by Dennis Webster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often shrouded in an eerie mist, the Adirondack Mountains are a perfect backdrop to the mysterious and the haunted. Troubled spirits of former patients roam the campus of the historic Dr. Trudeau Tuberculosis Sanitorium just outside Sarnac Lake. The ghost of Grace Brown, tragically murdered by her lover in 1906, drifts over the waters of Big Moose Lake. A long-deceased runaway slave remains a guest at the Stagecoach Inn in Lake Placid. The Sagamore Resort on an island in Lake George has been welcoming vacationers since 1883, and many have never left. Held captive in a remote mansion by her husband until her death, Mary Rhinelander still wanders the burned-out ruins of her earthly confinement. Writer and paranormal investigator Dennis Webster highlights the scariest haunts the Adirondacks can offer.
Download or read book The Adirondacks written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adirondacks written by Thomas Morris Longstreth and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adirondacks written by Seneca Ray Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adirondacks written by Seneca Ray Stoddard and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haunted Old Forge written by Dennis Webster and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the paranormal past of this little town in the Adirondacks . . . photos included! Spirits linger on the pine-covered slopes of the Adirondack Mountains that surround Old Forge. Books fly off the shelves at the Maxson House, and something—or someone—spies on the living from the attic window of the Goodsell Museum. The spirit of Mohawk Peter Waters is said to linger along the shores of First Lake, where an assassin killed him in 1833. The scent of a phantom cigar hints at the presence of the former owner of the Strand Theatre. In this book, Dennis Webster and Bernadette Peck and the Ghost Seekers of Central New York take a chilling journey into the paranormal history of what may be the most haunted town in the nation.
Download or read book Reminiscences of the Adirondacks written by H. L. Ives and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of the Adirondacks written by Alfred Lee Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Adirondacks written by S. Stoddard and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.
Download or read book Guides of the Adirondacks written by Charles Brumley and published by North Country Books. This book was released on 1994-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No profession in the last two centuries has had a more romanticized image than the Adirondack guide. Stories, interviews and a list of guides fill this volume.
Download or read book Terror in the Adirondacks written by Lawrence P. Gooley and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete life story of serial rapist and serial killer Robert F. Garrow. Derived from a variety of sources, the story¿s core is based on 2,000 pages of official court testimony, ensuring accuracy and offering an intimate look at the life of the most feared criminal in the history of the Adirondacks.Included is complete coverage of: Garrow¿s childhood; his multitude of crimes and deviant behavior; his many court appearances; the Speculator, Witherbee, and Fishkill manhunts; his manipulation of the corrections and court systems of NYS; the national maelstrom involving his attorneys; and the repercussions across New York State when his deceptions were revealed posthumously.
Download or read book The Adirondacks written by Paul Schneider and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His book is a romance, a story of first love between Americans and a thing they call "wilderness." For it was in the Adirondacks that masses of non-Native Americans first learned to cherish the wilderness as a place of recreation and solace. In this lyrical narrative history, the author reveals that the affair between Americans and the Adirondacks was by no means one of love at first sight. And even now, Schneider shows that Americans' relationship with the glorious mountains and rivers of the Adirondacks continues to change. As in every good romance, nothing is as simple as it appears.
