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.
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Adirondack Churches: A History of Design and Building by Sally E. Svenson
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Adirondack Fire Towers: Their History and Lore, The Northern Districts by Martin Podskoch
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Adirondack Ice: A Cultural and Natural History by Caperton Tissot
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Adventures in the wilderness, or, Camp-life in the Adirondacks by William Henry Harrison Murray
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A Grand Complication by Stacy Perman
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The Beloved Physician: Edward Livingston Trudeau by Stephen Chalmers
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The Brighton Story: Being the History of Paul Smiths, Gabriels and Rainbow Lake by Geraldine Collins
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Descriptive Guide to the Adirondacks by Edwin R. Wallace
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The Extraordinary Adirondack Journey of Clarence Petty by Christopher Angus
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Footsteps & Sunset on Adirondack Trails by Charles A. Wardner
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A Franklin Manor Christmas by Paul Willcott (novella and cd)
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Exposing the wilderness: early twentieth-century Adirondack postcard photographers by Robert Bogdan
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Fifty Years at Trudeau Sanatorium by Elizabeth Cole
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Great Camps of the Adirondacks by Harvey H. Kaiser
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Guides of the Adirondacks: A History by Charles Brumley
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Henry P. Leis: The Man from Saranac Lake by Marie Elizabeth Leis Pearce
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Historical Sketches of Franklin County by Frederick J. Seaver
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History between the lines : women's lives and Saranac Lake customs by Caperton Tissot
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History of Clinton and Franklin counties, New York by Duane Hamilton Hurd
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In the shadow of the White Plague : a memoir by Elizabeth Mooney
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The Last Crusade : the war on consumption, 1862-1954 by Mark Caldwell
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Loomis : The Man, The Sanitarium, and The Search for The Cure by John Conway
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Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America, a biography by M. M. Silver
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Love, Fiercely: A Guilded Age Romance by Jean Zimmerman
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Mountain Shadows by Patricia Reiss Brooks
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My Father by Peter Bartok
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A Past To Remember, A Future to Mold by Dora, Donna and Mildred Keough, eds.
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Paul Smith's Adirondack Hotel and College by Neil Surprenant
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Portrait of healing : curing in the woods by Victoria E. Rinehart
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The Reverend Samuel Smith and Family, 1804-2006 by James and Patricia Richards
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Rules for Recovery from pulmonary tuberculosis: a layman's handbook of treatment by Dr. Lawrason Brown
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Saranac: America's Magic Mountain by Robert Taylor
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Saranac Lake: Pioneer Health Resort by Mark Caldwell
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A Tuberculosis Directory Containing a List of Institutions, Associations and Other Agencies
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Where did the Tracks Go in the Central Adirondacks by Michael Kudish
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Woods and Waters, or Summer in the Saranacs by Alfred Billings Street
Other Resources
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The archives of the
Adirondack Daily Enterprise are available at a site run by the Northern New York Library Network (NNYLN).
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Other north country newspapers on the NNYLN site can be searched
here. A great deal of our content comes from the NNYLN Newspaper Archive.
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Bunk's Place mixes history and nostalgia; there are some wonderful materials.
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New York State Archives has more than 180 historic photographs of Saranac Lake.
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The Library of Congress has more than 150 historic photographs of Saranac Lake.
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New York Public Library has more than 50 historic photographs of Saranac Lake.
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the Northern New York Tombstone Transcription Project lists the burials in most cemeteries in the area.


