Frontiersmen of the Adirondacks: Economic Development in Early North America

Reverence for the past and its principal actors tends to be universal and they become heroic figures to posterity in the passage of time.

We Americans know too little of the doings of the people of past generations who lived their lives in our several localities. We all know that the “Red Man” once lived here, hunting and fishing for a living and constantly engaging in inter-tribal wars. We know that in New York State the “White Man,” our forbears, followed them, first the Dutchman and afte...