Books and Other Resources

Have you read any good books lately on Saranac Lake or Adirondack History? Are there books that you find particularly good? Let others know about them here.

You can edit this page to add a title, then click Save Changes. If you then click on the title, it will give you a pre-formatted page for adding the author and other information. Any titles below underlined with a dashed line need to be created, and almost all need reviews. If you click on a dashed link, "Create as Book", and then fill in the headings.

• An Autobiography by Edward Livingston Trudeau
  

• Annual Report of the Forest Commission for the year 1893
  

• Camp Chronicles by Margaret Phelps Stokes Hooker
  

• Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake by Philip Gallos
  

• A Franklin Manor Christmas by Paul Willcott (novella and cd)
  

• Fifty Years at Trudeau Sanatorium by Elizabeth Cole
  

• Great Camps of the Adirondacks by Harvey H. Kaiser
  

• Henry P. Leis: the man from Saranac Lake by Marie Elizabeth Leis Pearce
  

• Historical Sketches of Franklin County by Frederick J. Seaver
  

• History between the lines : women's lives and Saranac Lake customs by Caperton Tissot
  

• A History of the Adirondacks by Alfred L. Donaldson
  

• In the shadow of the White Plague : a memoir by Elizabeth Mooney
  

• Journal of the Outdoor Life
  

• The Last Crusade : the war on consumption, 1862-1954 by Mark Caldwell
  

• Loomis : The Man, The Sanitarium, and The Search for The Cure by John Conway.
  

• Mountain Shadows by Patricia Reiss Brooks
  

• My Father by Peter Bartok
  

• A Past To Remember, A Future to Mold, Dora, Donna and Mildred Keough, eds.
  

• Paul Smith's Adirondack Hotel and College by Neil Surprenant
  

• Portrait of healing : curing in the woods by Victoria E. Rinehart
  

• Rules for Recovery from pulmonary tuberculosis: a layman's handbook of treatment By Dr. Lawrason Brown
  

• Saranac 1937-1940: A Memoir by Richard H. Ray
  

• Saranac: America's Magic Mountain by Robert Taylor
  

• Saranac Lake: Pioneer Health Resort by Mark Caldwell
  

• A Tuberculosis Directory Containing a List of Institutions, Associations and Other Agencies
  

• Where did the Tracks Go in the Central Adirondacks by Michael Kudish
  

• Woods and Waters, or Summer in the Saranacs] by Alfred Billings Street

• The archives of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise for 1948, and 1952 through July of 1976 (missing August of 1955) are available online here
  

• Wikipedia: There are a number of articles in Wikipedia that are of local interest here.
  

• Bunk's Place mixes history and nostalgia. There are some wonderful materials here.
  

• Saranac Lake History Bibliography

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