Slavery: backdrop to the Adirondack story -- Gerrit Smith: Essex and Franklin County colonists -- Soldiers of the Civil War -- Wartime and early postwar migration -- Making a living -- Railroad building -- The summer resort industry -- Resort entertainment: employees and students -- Baseball, and a little basketball -- Saranac Lake and tuberculosis -- Community life in Saranac Lake -- Popular culture: professional performers -- Lake Placid and the John Brown Memorial Association -- Public and publicly supported institutions -- Miners of Moriah -- Pullman porters: railroad stories -- The twentieth-century military -- Tourism -- 1940 to 1950 and beyond.
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