The period of 1890-1950 marked the romantic era of steam power as the rails reached deep into the old growth of the Adirondack woods to harvest the timber crop.

Using his Weekly Adirondack articles as a blueprint, Charles Herr presents the first general history of the Fulton Chain region in almost seventy years. Readers

Long before Thomas O¿Donnell entered school he had chewed tobacco and pitched horseshoes with lumberjacks at his father¿s camp. He witnessed the felling of th