Adirondack history is a tale written o the water. In the
Adirondacks, people have traveled, conducted warfare, hunted and
fished, gone to church, proposed marriage, and driven logs in, on,
from, or by water. Without boats, small and large, Adirondack
history--social, recreational, commercial, and environmental--would
be an affair entirely different from what we have come to know. In
this lavishly illustrated account, Hallie E. Bond presents a
history of these boats--canoes, sailboats, power launches,
outboards, and the indigenous guideboat--that figure prominently in
the overall history of the Adirondacks. The pre-contact Indians
paddled dugout and bark canoes; in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries these craft were joined by skiffs and bateaux. Between
1820 and World War II, a distinctive tradition of boat building
developed, culminating in the famous Adirondack guideboat. As the
nineteenth century progressed, a variety of small, fresh water,
musclepowered boats was produced in the Adirondacks--an assemblage
matched by only a few places in the country. There were the canoes
and the men that made them famous--John Henry Rushton and
Nessmuk--and the guideboats and their builders--H. Dwight Grant and
Willard Hanmer. In the early twentieth century, the development of
the internal combustion engine irrevocably changed not only boat
use and design, but life and leisure in the Adirondacks. Bond
skillfully captures the whole panorama of boats and boating in the
Adirondacks, from early dugouts and bateaux to the highpowered
inboards that won Gold Cup races on Lake George and the Kevlar pack
canoes of today. Drawing on her experience as an historian and
Curator of Collections and Boats at the Adirondack Museum, Bond
places events and trends of the region in the context of national
and international history and describes the significant
contribution of the Adirondacks in the early twentieth-century
development of recreation and travel in America. Boats and Boating
in the Adirondacks also includes a descriptive catalog of boats
from the museum's own collection with nearly two hundred
illustrations in addition to those in the narrative, a list of
boatbuilders active in the North Country before 1975, and a
valuable glossary of terms.
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