Excerpts from "The Great Camps of the Adirondacks" by Harvey H. Kaiser
Early guest lodging: a bark teepee at Nehesane.
Encompassing an area of about six million acres - larger than the state of Massachusetts - the Adirondacks represent one of the last vestiges of wilderness in the United States outside Alaska. ...Mountains, lakes and rivers mark the region as unusual , but it is the woods that make the Adirondacks unique. So vast was the original forest cover that for centuries it was known simply as the 'North Woods'. Endless forests of giant spruce and white pine tower above the maples and birches.
It was the beauty of the area, with its grandeur and wilderness mystique and even its smells and sounds, that attracted men to the area and continued calling them back; first to explore, then to hunt, fish, and trap; to harvest the timber; and finally to settle the region, men came because the woods were a challenge, separating them from their earlier experiences and the outside world. The settling of the Adirondack country, its terrain, climate, and its resources, determined how men built.
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