The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay-A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North is a classic Canadian history text by Agnes C. Laut. Thirty or more years ago, one who stood at the foot of Main Street, Winnipeg, in front of the stone gate leading to the inner court of Fort Garry, and looked up across the river flats, would have seen a procession as picturesque as ever graced the streets of old Quebec--the dog brigades of the Hudson's Bay Company coming in from the winter's hunt.
This is a collection of illustrations, paintings, and photographs made by the author and their descriptions of scenery throughout the Hudson Valley and Highlands.
In 1924, Earl Handy and John Hudson took a two-week canoe and camping trip that started on the Moosup River in Rhode Island. They paddled to the Quinebaug in Connecticut, connected to the Thames, and ended on the Pawcatuck River. Handy kept a journal of this adventure, and, along with photographs, this book recaptures that trip, 92 years later.
The Albany Post Road was the vital artery between New York City and the state capital in Albany in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It saw a host of interesting events and colorful characters, though these unusual and extraordinary stories, as well as their connection to the thoroughfare, are oft forgotten. Revolutionary War spies marched this path, and anti-rent wars rocked Columbia County. Underground Railroad safe houses in nearby towns like Rhinebeck and Fishkill sheltered slaves seeking freedom in Canada, and Frank Teal's Dutchess County murder remains unsolved. With illustrations by Tatiana Rhinevault, local historian Carney Rhinevault presents these and other hidden stories from the Albany Post Road in New York's mid-Hudson Valley.