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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Kimberly A Jarvis |
ISBN: | 9781584656272 1584656271 9781584656265 1584656263 |
OCLC Number: | 72353859 |
Description: | xvi, 214 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: A unique masterpiece of nature -- chp. 1. A prospect truly grand and often awfully sublime: exploring the White Mountains -- chp. 2. The emotion of the sublime: tourism and art in the White Mountains -- chp. 3. A huge museum of curiosities: Franconia Notch, as advertised -- chp. 4. Saving the Switzerland of America: the White Mountains conservation movement -- chp. 5. To aid and educate: organizing the White Mountains conservation movement -- chp. 6. Old Man of the Mountain rallies his friends: the campaign to save Franconia Notch, August 1923 to October 1927 -- chp. 7. The Old Man belongs to the nation: the campaign to save Franconia Notch, October 1927 to June 1928 -- chp. 8. Which shall it be?" Franconia Notch preserved. |
Series Title: | Revisiting New England. |
Responsibility: | Kimberly A. Jarvis. |
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Abstract:
"...The 6,000-acre Franconia Notch nestled deep in the majestic White Mountains [of New Hampshire], was a well-loved summer resort and tourist destination in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. When in 1923 a devastating fire destroyed a famous grand hotel...and its owners decided against rebuilding, lumber companies eagerly moved in to evaluate the timber in the region. A vigorous campaign to save the pristine...wildnerness began."
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