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57. “Among the Adirondacks.” 1868. The New York Times (August 30): 5; “The
Forestry Commission.” 1885. The New York Times (September 11): 8.
58. All of the monetary figures cited in the text are drawn from the 1890 federal
census. See: University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center. United States
Historical Census Data Browser. ONLINE. 1998. University of Virginia. Available:
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/. [July 29, 2003].
59. “Pirates of the Forest.” 1889. The New York Times (September 25): 9;
“Railroads in the Adirondacks.” 1891. The New York Times (May 19): 4; “The
Adirondack Forests.” 1894. The New York Times (April 11): 4.
60. “A People’s Hunting-Ground.” 1871. The New York Times (June 10): 4. The
Times was not alone in its belief that the Adirondacks held little promise for agriculture.
The Albany Evening Journal noted in 1885 that “farming in this region is generally
entirely unreumerative.” See: “Preserve the Forests.” 1885. The Albany Evening Journal
(March 10): 2.
61. The author is identified as a newspaperman because of his listed occupation
in the 1880 federal census for Malone, New York. His comments in the Times were
published as a letter to the editor. See: Fred J. Seaver. 1883. The Adirondack Park
Question. The New York Times (December 25): 6.
62. “The Adirondack Invasion.” 1891. The New York Times (May 28): 4.
63. “The People’s Park in the Adirondacks.” 1889. The New York Times (August
21): 4.
64. T.B. Thorpe. 1869. The Abuses of the Backwoods. Appleton’s Journal of
Popular Literature, Science, and Art (December 18): 565.
65. “A People’s Hunting-Ground.” 1871. The New York Times (June 10): 4; “Lake
George Park.” 1889. The New York Times (July 15): 4.
66. Bryce (1888): 234.
67. “The Forestry Commission.” 1885. The New York Times (September 11): 8.
68. “The Forestry Commission.” 1885. The New York Times (September 11): 8;
“The Adirondack Forests.” 1888. The New York Times (May 2): 4.
69. For many years, Adirondack residents opposed the creation of a park out of
fear that it would shift assessable property into the public domain and out of the reach
of local taxation. See: Fred J. Seaver. 1883. The Adirondack Park Question. The New
York Times (December 25): 6.
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