The Best of the Adirondack Tales - New York Classics by W H H Murray Paperback

About the Book

The best of W.H.H. Murray's 19th century Adirondack stories, selected by Murray's biographer and great, great grandson, Randall S. Beach

Book Synopsis

The best of W.H.H. Murray's 19th century Adirondack stories, selected by Murray's biographer and great, great grandson, Randall S. Beach

William Henry Harrison Murray ("Adirondack Murray") is known as the father of the outdoor movement in America and the modern vacation. A passionate advocate for the wilderness and, specifically, the Adirondacks in New York State, Murray was the author of numerous books from the 1860s until his death in the early twentieth century. Many of his books and short stories focused on the Adirondacks and the importance of human interaction with nature. For the first time, The Best of the Adirondack Tales gathers his best and most beloved stories, drawn from many sources and selected by Murray's biographer and great-great grandson, Randall S. Beach. Among the favorites included: "The Freemasonry of Outdoor Life," "Jack Shooting in a Foggy Night," "The Story that the Keg Told Me," "Henry Herbert's Thanksgiving," and "How John Norton the Trapper Kept His Christmas."

Review Quotes

"The Best of the Adirondack Tales brings the works of Murray, whose work has generally found an audience in regional studies, to a much larger readership ... his down-to-earth style and storytelling are compelling and transport readers quickly into the nineteenth-century Adirondacks and all they have to offer." - H-Net Reviews (H-Environment)

About the Author

W. H. H. Murray (1848-1904) was a Boston preacher who memorialized the Adirondack region through his colorful stories. Randall S. Beach, the great-great grandson of Murray, is an attorney with the law firm of Whiteman Osterman and Hanna LLP in Albany, New York. He is the author of A Passionate Life: W. H. H. Murray, from Preacher to Progressive, also published by SUNY Press.