Beecher, Raymond — Kaaterskill Clove: Where Nature Met Art

Hensonville, New York, Abbeville Press Inc, 2004. Softcover. Small quarto. Softcover. Glossy illustrated wraps. 223 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. I. Legend and Lore: Rip Van Winkle -- Native Americans. II. The Clove in American Art: Nineteenth-Century Artists in the Clove: The Hudson River School -- Kindred Spirits -- Poor Man's Art -- Stereoscopic Views -- E.T. Mason, Patron Saint of Kaaterskill Clove -- B.B.G. Stone (1829-1908), Second Generation of the Hudson River School -- The Palenville Art Colony -- Walton Van Loan, "Mr. Catskill." III. Literary Sketches: European Travel Writers -- American Writers-Amateur and Professional. IV. Grand Hotels and Private Parks: Summer Guests at the Mountain House, 1880 -- Summer Guests at the Mountain House, 1905 -- Hotel Kaaterskill -- The Laurel House -- Guests at the Mountain House, 1922 -- The Mountain House for Sale -- The Mountain House under Van Wagonen Ownership -- Mountain House Finale -- Homes near to Nature. V. Harvesting the Clove's Resources: Industry in the Clove -- Logging the Pine Orchard -- South Lake's Ice Crops. VI. The Clove Road: Traveling Kaaterskill Clove -- The Clove Race that Fizzled Out -- "Jacob's Ladder" or the "Rip Van Winkle Trail"? Epilogue: Thomas Cole, Cedar Grove, and Kaaterskill Clove. VG. Clean and unmarked.