The Hudson River Guidebook by Arthur G Adams

The Hudson River Guidebook by Arthur G Adams 

Chronicles the history of the Hudson River region of New York State through five centuries, from its early inhabitants: its many Native American Tribes and early Dutch and English settlers, through the American Revolution to the present. Contains poems and excerpts from novels and essays that describe the river and life along it before the twenith century. Among the writers included are Walt Whitman, Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and Edgar Allan Poe.