What to see in America . Photo byLower Ausable River near tain trees. A thintide of home-makersbegan to creep intothe region after theRevolution. Theskin-hunters pros-pered, prospectorssearched for gold,and lumberersstripped the more ac-cessible valleys andslopes of white pineand hemlock. Theland was a game-filledparadise until it be-gan to be a pleasureresort about last wolf was anold yellow-fanged onekilled near Brandreth WaririckTHE OU CnrpcntrrTLET Adirondacksmeans tree-eat-ers, a name jok-ingly applied bythe Mohawks toan invading tribefrom Canada,which, after us-ing up its stores
What to see in America . Photo byLower Ausable River near tain trees. A thintide of home-makersbegan to creep intothe region after theRevolution. Theskin-hunters pros-pered, prospectorssearched for gold,and lumberersstripped the more ac-cessible valleys andslopes of white pineand hemlock. Theland was a game-filledparadise until it be-gan to be a pleasureresort about last wolf was anold yellow-fanged onekilled near Brandreth WaririckTHE OU CnrpcntrrTLET Adirondacksmeans tree-eat-ers, a name jok-ingly applied bythe Mohawks toan invading tribefrom Canada,which, after us-ing up its storesof fish and veni-son, found a pre-carious substi-tute in the budsand bark of cer-. © Detroit Photo Flume, Ausable Chasm New York State 93 in 1892, but only a fewdecades earlier the wolvesstole venison from camps,and destroyed great num-bers of deer when thedeep winter snows madeflight difficult. Long be-fore the last wolf per-ished, the beaver, whichhad been abundant, wereextinct; but beaver thatwere released in 1905 andprotected have multiplieduntil now they are sonumerous as to be a pestin some sections throughtheir propensity for flood-ing the country with theirdams. In the year that Na-poleon suffered disasterat Waterloo, his brother,Joseph Bonaparte, King of Spain, bought 118,000 acres inthe Adirondacks around Diana, a name which he built a hunting lodge on the shore of the lake that nowbears his name, put up a summer house at Alpena, and an-other with bullet-proof rooms at Natural Bridge on theIndian River, where it can still be seen. In 1857 John Brown bought a piece of improved land atNorth Elba. There he made a home for himself and his
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