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Bare Trees: Zadock Pratt, Master Tanner and the Story...Entry/Object ID
06.63.1Description
"Until the advent of the tanning industry, these mountains were a solid mass of hemlock forests... Millions upon millions of cubic feet of giant hemlock were laid to the ax. pealed and in most instances left to rot. By 1890 this unbridled exploitation had destroyed the virgin forests, the tanning industry collapsed, and the mountains grew up again to the hardwoods of today." - from The Catskill Mountain House, Roland Van Zandt, 1991Publication Details
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Patricia E Millen *