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Author Dunwell, Frances F.

Title The Hudson : America's river / Frances F. Dunwell.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2008]
©2008

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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  974.73 D91    Check Shelf
 Rocky Hill, Cora J. Belden Library - Adult Department  974.73 DUNWELL    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  974.73 D928H    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  974.73 DU    Check Shelf
Edition Updated and expanded edition.
Description xxiv, 363 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm
Contents Prologue : River of imagining, people of passion and dreams -- World's end, world trade, world river : Henry Hudson's failed quest, Adriaen Van der Donck's utopian vision, and the legend of the storm ship -- The river that unites, the river that divides : King George and George Washington vie for the Hudson -- America's river of empire : Robert Fulton's folly, Robert Livingston's venture capital, and DeWitt Clinton's ditch spark the rise of New York port -- First stop on the American tour : Europe discovers Sylvanus Thayer's West Point, a Catskills sunrise, and a river that defines the American character -- America's first artists and writers : the sacred river of Thomas Cole, the mythic river of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper -- The industrialized river : Gouverneur Kemble's weapon works, Henry Burden's iron foundries, and Colonel Stevens's engine factory -- Going up the river for health and fun : New York City journalist N.P. Willis survives TB and discovers an idle wild -- Design with nature : the landscape gardens of A.J. Downing, the architecture of A.J. Davis, and the inspiration for Central Park and Riverside Drive -- Gateway to America, escape route to Canada : immigrants greet a beacon of liberty, John Jervis creates a new river route, and a railroad goes underground -- Millionaires' row : the river castles of J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and Frederic Church, and the floating palaces of Manhattan's West side -- A forest to protect a commercial river : land surveyor Verplanck Colvin, photographer Seneca Ray Stoddard, and the New York Board of Trade campaign to safeguard the Hudson in the Adirondacks -- An interstate park for the Palisades and the Highlands and a new progressive vision : Elizabeth Vermilye's Women's Clubs, Edward and Mary Harriman's Park, Mrs. Olmsted's Fresh Air camp, and Margaret Sage's charity -- Over, under, across, and through : civil engineers triumph over nature, except in New York Harbor -- Surviving the depression, connecting with nature : FDR's river of dignity, Robert Moses's Riverside Drive, and John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s parkway -- The 1960s : Scenic Hudson, Riverkeeper, Clearwater, and the Nature Conservancy campaign to save a mountain and revive a "dead" river -- Epilogue : A river of power, and the power of passion.
Note Updated and expanded ed. of: The Hudson River Highlands. 1991.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-344) and index.
Subject Hudson Highlands (N.Y.) -- History.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History.
Hudson Highlands (N.Y.) -- Environmental conditions.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Environmental conditions.
Hudson Highlands (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- History -- Sources.
Human ecology -- New York (State) -- Hudson Highlands.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Public opinion.
Public opinion -- United States.
Added Author Dunwell, Frances F. Hudson River Highlands.
ISBN 9780231136402 cloth alkaline paper
0231136404 cloth alkaline paper
9780231136419 paperback
0231136412 paperback
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