| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 144 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Series |
Garnet books |
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Garnet books.
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| Note |
"A series of historic newspaper articles, 1869/1889, illustrated with maps and photographs." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-140) and index. |
| Contents |
Mother Goose's "One Misty, Moisty Morning," 1785 -- part I. 1869-1883 -- part II. 1884-1885 -- part III. 1886-1888 -- part IV. 1889 -- Appendix A. Artifacts and Portraits -- Appendix B. Towns through Which the Leather Man Walked at One Time -- Appendix C. Selected Old Leather Man Sites Accessible to the Public. |
| Summary |
"In 1883, wearing a 60-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a never-changing 365-mile loop between the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers which he would complete every 34 days for almost 6 years. His circuit took him through at least 41 towns in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York, sleeping in caves, accepting food from towns people, and speaking at times only in grunts and gestures along the way. What remains of the mysterious Leather Man today are the news clippings and photographs taken by the first-hand witnesses of this captivating individual. |
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The Old Leather Man gathers the best of the early newspaper accounts of the Leather Man and includes time tables, maps of his route, historic photographs of his shelters and some houses he was known to stop at along his way, and photographs of the Leather Man himself. This history tracks the footsteps of the Leather Man and unravels the myths surrounding the man who made Connecticut's caves his home."--Jacket. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Subject |
Tramps -- New England -- History -- Sources.
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New England -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Social conditions (OCoLC)fst01919811
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Tramps. (OCoLC)fst01154474
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New England. (OCoLC)fst01241913
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| Chronological Term |
1865-1918
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| Indexed Term |
New England Social conditions |
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Tramps New England History Sources |
| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Electronic books.
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Sources. (OCoLC)fst01423900
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Deluca, Dan W., editor.
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Longley, Dione, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Old leather man 9780819568625 (DLC) 2008029053 (OCoLC)227929405 |
| ISBN |
9780819574459 (electronic bk.) |
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0819574457 (electronic bk.) |
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