Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950 Book

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Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950, In Adirondack Camps, Craig Gilborn provides the most extensive and up-to-date social and architectural history of camps in the Adirondacks - from the primitive bark shanties and cabins of trappers and loggers to the celebrated great camps, where the rich , Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950

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Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950
Written by author Craig A. Gilborn
Published by Syracuse University Press, May 2000
In Adirondack Camps, Craig Gilborn provides the most extensive and up-to-date social and architectural history of camps in the Adirondacks - from the primitive bark shanties and cabins of trappers and loggers to the celebrated great camps, where the rich
Gilborn, director of the Adirondack Museum, examines camps in a great many forms, moving from a time when improvised shanties and cabins were constructed on lands generally without boundaries, to the 1870s in which land became property in the form of larg

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Color Plates
Illustrations
Map
Foreword: Beyond the Blue Line
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Camp - E Pluribus Unum
Color Plates 2
1 The Log Cabin as American Symbol 11
2 Adirondack Guides and Caretakers 23
3 Open Camps and Shanties 39
4 Log Cabin, Log House, Home into Hotel 61
5 Land and the Formation of Private Preserves 81
6 Clubs 99
7 Transitional Camps and Tents 119
8 Decorous Adirondack Camps 159
9 Other Features of the Decorous Camp 197
10 Trophy Camps and Their Early Designers 217
11 Old Forge and Saranac Lake Architects 249
12 Kamp Kill Kare: Prodigy Camp 273
App. A "Great" Camps and Their Care 299
App. B Projects of Durant, Coulter, and Distin 309
Notes 315
Bibliography 327
Index 351

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	Color Plates
	Illustrations
	Map
	Foreword: Beyond the Blue Line
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Camp - E Pluribus Unum
	Color Plates	2
1	The Log Cabin as American Symbol	11
2	Adirondack Guides and Caretakers	23
3	Open Camps and Shanties	39
4	Log Cabin, Log House, Home into Hotel	61
5	Land and the Formation of Private Preserves	81
6	Clubs	99
7	Transitional Camps and Tents	119
8	Decorous Adirondack Camps	159
9	Other Features of the Decorous Camp	197
10	Trophy Camps and Their Early Designers	217
11	Old Forge and Saranac Lake Architects	249
12	Kamp Kill Kare: Prodigy Camp	273
App. A	"Great" Camps and Their Care	299
App. B	Projects of Durant, Coulter, and Distin	309
	Notes	315
	Bibliography	327
	Index	351