William H. H. Murray wrote his celebrated book in the spring of
1869 to introduce city-dwellers to the rewards of camping in the
wilderness. Thousands of tourists streamed to the Adirondacks that
summer in what was known as "Murray's Rush." Unfortunately, most
had not read the book carefully, and that summer was unusually wet
and cold. The result was an enormous outcry against Murray and his
"lies," to which he responded with vigor in an article published in
the New-York Daily Tribune, October 23, 1869, and included here.
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