Stories from the White Mountains
Subtitle: celebrating the region's historic past
By: Mike Dickerman
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781626190795
Subjects: History; Local History; Social life and customs; Biography
Description: "A collection of vignettes focusing on the history of the White Mountains in New Hampshire"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hiking History of Mount Washington; title: Winter Firsts on the Rock Pile; title: Exploring the Whites with the AMC; title: Moses Sweetser and the Early Guidebooks for White Mountain Trampers; title: Fire Towers and Their Pioneering Women Lookouts; title: Lumberjacks and Locomotives : The Logging Railroad Era; title: Crash of the Triton (and Other Log-Train Mishaps); title: Big Blow : The Hurricane of 1938; title: Plane Crash in the Pemi : The Tragic Tale of the Missing Doctors; title: A Working Life Spent in the Woods; title: Schuyler Dodge and the Mountain View House.