Download or read book Mount Washington written by Mike Dickerman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two centuries, Mount Washington has been the object of countless writers' wonder and fascination. In this volume, more than twenty previously written pieces inspired by New England's highest peak have been carefully selected, and collectively these cover nearly every aspect of the mountain's storied past. Tag along on early explorations of the White Mountains and its fabled Presidential Range. Follow the history of the nation's first mountain-climbing train and witness many of Mount Washington's tales of human tragedies. Editor and area historian Mike Dickerman explores the captivating history of one of the Granite State's most remarkable places.
Download or read book Mount Washington Narratives and Perspectives written by Edited by Mike Dickerman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go off the beaten path and explore the captivating history of one of the Granite State's most remarkable places. For two centuries, Mount Washington has been the object of countless writers' wonder and fascination. In this volume, more than twenty previously written pieces inspired by New England's highest peak have been carefully selected, and collectively these cover nearly every aspect of the mountain's storied past. Tag along on early explorations of the White Mountains and its fabled Presidential Range. Follow the history of the nation's first mountain-climbing train and witness many of Mount Washington's tales of human tragedies. Editor and area historian Mike Dickerman uncovers the fascinating history of one of the New Hampshire's most renowned natural wonders.
Download or read book Death on Mount Washington written by Randi Minetor and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Mount Washington, it’s lack of preparation, not the mountain, that kills. The weather is highly changeable with wind gusts of 140 mph and -35 degree temps. Then there are the avalanches and icefalls. Combine this with inexperienced hikers in t-shirts and flip flops and things can get ugly fast. Death on Mount Washington describes the circumstances behind the tragic tales of those who have lost their lives on the mountain. No one--not even the most experienced mountaineer or pilot--is safe from the mountain's mercurial weather conditions. Learn from the mistakes of others in the comfort and safety of your armchair and remember to respect Mount Washington on your next ski trip.
Download or read book Fifty Select Views of Mount Washington and Surroundings written by and published by . This book was released on 189? with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mount Washington with Photographic Views written by Henry Martyn Burt and published by . This book was released on 189? with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stories of Mt Washington written by Martha Treichler and published by Eco Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971 Martha and Bill Treichler bought an old farm on Mt. Washington, a high ridge in upstate New York. Stories of Mt. Washington tells of their search to discover who built their old house and what kind of life he and his family and neighbors had led. By good luck, the Treichlers met the great-great-granddaughter of the man who built their house, and with more good luck, found the descendants of other early settlers. This book tells what they discovered of the old Mt. Washington community.
Download or read book Stories of Mt Washington written by Martha Treichler and published by Crooked Lake Review Books. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971 Martha and Bill Treichler bought an old farm on Mt. Washington, a high ridge in upstate New York. Stories of Mt. Washington tells of their search to discover who built their old house and what kind of life they and their neighbors had led. By good luck, the Treichlers met the great-great-granddaughter of the man who built their house, and with more good luck, found the descendants of other early settlers. The second edition adds new stories to the tales of what they discovered of the old Mt. Washington community.
Download or read book Mount Washington in Winter 1870 1871 written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of Mount Washington written by Frank Allen Burt and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Years on the Rock Pile written by Lee Vincent and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Photographic Views from Mount Washington and Vicinity written by Franklin White and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ten Years on the Rock Pile written by Lee Vincent and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mount Washington, located in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, is the highest peak in the northeastern United States. It is often cited—by its inhabitants, no less—as the home of the country’s worst weather, a claim supported by the mountain’s long-held record for the highest wind gust directly measured at the Earth’s surface (231 mph on April 12, 1934). As a transmitter supervisor for WMTW-TV, Lee Vincent traveled regularly to the summit of Mount Washington. Soon enough his reports from the peak began appearing in a column in a local paper—and just as quickly captivated readers near and far. These columns—with their accounts of the everyday lives and unusual exploits of the individuals who chose, against all odds and most notions of common sense, to call Mount Washington home—are gathered in this book. As entertaining and engaging as they are informative, these reports from the summit form an invaluable record of life happily lived in extremity. Accompanied by remarkable photographs and candid snapshots, they also document the experience and insights—and after Vincent’s diagnosis with a virulent form of cancer, the valiant last days—of someone who had seen the mountaintop and reported back for the edification and delight of those lucky enough to read his columns and books.
Download or read book White Mountains Hiking History written by Mike Dickerman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the time of pioneer settlers Abel and Ethan Allen Crawford, explorers and adventurers have been lured by the stunning peaks and lush valleys of New Hampshire's White Mountains. In the nearly two centuries since the Crawfords constructed their first crude footpath onto the heights of Mount Washington and the Presidential Range, the White Mountain trail system has evolved into an intricate network featuring more than 1,400 miles of marked paths. Retrace the steps of early mountain guides such as Charles Lowe and Allen "Old Man" Thompson and learn how these early path-makers made New England's most popular and extensive mountain trail system possible. Longtime northern New Hampshire hiking columnist and guidebook author Mike Dickerman traces the fascinating story of this evolution with this new collection of profiles and reflections on the early trails and trailblazers of the region.
Download or read book Franconia Notch and the Women who Saved it written by Kimberly A. Jarvis and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early 20th century case study of evolving grassroots notions of preservation and the role of women in the American conservation movement
Download or read book Mt Washington written by Bobby K. Darnell and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When pioneers first ventured off the Wilderness Road in the late 1700s looking for a more direct route to Louisville, they came upon a pleasant area between the Salt River and Floyd's Fork. It provided rich soil for farmland, virgin timber for building, plentiful game, and numerous springs. As roads from Bardstown to Louisville and Shepherdsville to Shelbyville and Taylorsville were forged, the area was nicknamed "The Crossroads." In 1818, the community was named first Mt. Vernon and then Mt. Washington. The town grew tremendously, outgrowing all of its neighboring cities in Bullitt County for decades. As many as five hotels existed in the mid-1800s, and a private school named Mt. Washington Academy, greatly praised as "The Athens of this Place," drew students from miles away.
Download or read book Mount Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book This Vast Book of Nature written by Pavel Cenkl and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire---and, by implication, other wild places---have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purposes and identified it as having value beyond the economic. Starting with an exploration of Jeremy Belknap’s 1784 expedition to Mount Washington, which Cenkl links to the origins of tourism in the White Mountains, to the transformation of touristic and residential relationships to landscape, This Vast Book of Nature explores the ways competing visions of the landscape have transformed the White Mountains culturally and physically, through settlement, development, and---most recently---preservation, a process that continues today.
