White Mountains Hiking History

White Mountains Hiking History
Author: Mike Dickerman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2013-06-04
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1625845332

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.

White Mountains Hiking History

White Mountains Hiking History
Author: Mike Dickerman
Publisher: American Chronicles
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781626190801

"A collection of vignettes about the trail guides and builders of the White Mountains"--

The White Mountains

The White Mountains
Author: John T. B. Mudge
Publisher:
Total Pages: 187
Release: 1995
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9780963356062

This 224 page book identifies more than 200 places in the White Mountains -- streams, mountains, trails & many other locations & traces the history of the region from colonial days to present times. The book also includes reproductions of important photographs of the region. The author is a veteran hiker & long time visitor to the White Mountains who spends as much time as possible up there hiking the mountains that he loves. "And visitors to New Hampshire's mountains can settle arguments by consulting The White Mountains, Names, Places & Legends." Yankee Magazine. "The beauty of the book is that one can opt to read it alphabetically or simply open it anywhere." Northern New Hampshire Magazine. "A little encyclopedia of everything you'd ever want to know about this well-loved mountain range." Summit Magazine.

East Branch & Lincoln Railroad

East Branch & Lincoln Railroad
Author: Erin Paul Donovan
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 96
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467128627

Built by James Everell Henry, the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad (EB&L) is considered to be the grandest and largest logging railroad operation ever built in New England. In 1892, the mountain town of Lincoln, New Hampshire, was transformed from a struggling wilderness enclave to a thriving mill town when Henry moved his logging operation from Zealand. He built houses, a company store, sawmills, and a railroad into the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River watershed to harvest virgin spruce. Despite the departure of the last EB&L log train from Lincoln Woods by 1948, the industry's cut-and-run practices forever changed the future of land conservation in the region, prompting legislation like the Weeks Act of 1911 and the Wilderness Act of 1964. Today, nearly every trail in the Pemigewasset Wilderness follows or utilizes portions of the old EB&L Railroad bed.

History of the White Mountains

History of the White Mountains
Author: Benjamin G (Benjamin Glazier) Willey
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781017873047

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This Grand & Magnificent Place

This Grand & Magnificent Place
Author: Christopher Johnson
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781584654612

A sweeping environmental history of a quintessential American wilderness.

Waterfalls of the White Mountains

Waterfalls of the White Mountains
Author: Bruce R. Bolnick
Publisher: Countryman Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 1999
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780881504644

This guide to over 100 waterfalls in the White Mountains of New Hampshire tells the best times of year and vantage points from which to view them, and also gives suggestions for further hikes, swimming holes, and uncrowded picnic spots.

The History of the White Mountains: From the First Settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket

The History of the White Mountains: From the First Settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket
Author: Lucy Crawford
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-02-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781377376493

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Chronicles of the White Mountains

Chronicles of the White Mountains
Author: Frederick Wilkinson Kilbourne
Publisher:
Total Pages: 536
Release: 1978
Genre: History
ISBN:

From the Preface: Allen H. Bent, in the Introduction to his admirable Bibliography of the White Mountains, published in 1911, makes the doubtless somewhat surprising remark that "the White Mountains... have had more written about them, probably, than any other mountains, the Alps alone excepted." When one seeks an explanation for this circumstance, that a district of so limited area and mountains of such relatively low elevation have received an apparently disproportionate amount of literary attention, one may find it, in part at least, as pointed out by the author of an article printed now nearly twenty-five years ago, in the fact that these mountains are the only considerable group worthy of the name of mountains in the northeastern United States and that they are, with the exception of the until recently almost unknown and comparatively inaccessible Southern Appalachians of North Carolina, the only highlands of scenic consequence in the eastern part of the country.