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100 1 Dunwell, Frances F.
245 14 The Hudson :|bAmerica's river /|cFrances F. Dunwell.
250 Updated and expanded edition.
264 1 New York :|bColumbia University Press,|c[2008]
264 4 |c©2008
300 xxiv, 363 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates :
|billustrations (some color), maps ;|c28 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
500 Updated and expanded ed. of: The Hudson River Highlands.
1991.
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-344) and
index.
505 0 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.
650 0 Human ecology|zNew York (State)|zHudson Highlands.
650 0 Public opinion|zUnited States.
651 0 Hudson Highlands (N.Y.)|xHistory.
651 0 Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)|xHistory.
651 0 Hudson Highlands (N.Y.)|xEnvironmental conditions.
651 0 Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)|xEnvironmental conditions.
651 0 Hudson Highlands (N.Y.)|xHistory|vSources.
651 0 Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)|xHistory|vSources.
651 0 Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.)|xPublic opinion.
700 1 Dunwell, Frances F.|tHudson River Highlands.
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