Seneca Ray Stoddard: Transforming the Adirondack Wilderness in Text and Image

Seneca Ray Stoddard's photographic and literary work paralleled the era of exploration of this region as well as the early years of photography. It was during his lifetime-as a result of the changing perceptions of the wilderness-that the area first attracted artists, tourists, and summer residents. Jeffrey L. Horrell's book explores the nature of this Adirondack pioneer's work and examines how it influenced and was influenced by the changing attitudes toward wilderness in the last half of ...