John Brown's Tract

Lost Adirondack Empire

• Author(s): Henry A. L. Brown, Richard J. Walton,
• Publisher: Rhode Island Historical Society
• Pages: 366
• ISBN_10: 0914659340
  ISBN_13: 9780914659341
  
• Language: en

Description:... "For decades in the last century [i.e. 19th] the vast wilderness upstate New York now known as the Adirondacks was called John Brown's Tract after its owner .... John Brown ... tried to make of the Adirondacks what nature would not permit them to be, a great economic empire based on farming and mining"--Front flap of bookcover.