Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks

by Big Moose Lake History Project; Barlow, Jane A.; Barlow, Mark (CON); Carey, Frank (CON); Dunn, William S. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780815607991
• ISBN10: 0815607997
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix
The Big Moose Lake History Project Committee	xiii
Preface	xv
Introduction	xix
Description of Big Moose Lake	xxi
The Intractable Wilderness	1	(20)
Beginnings	1	(5)
Guides, Early Visitors, and First Settlers	6	(9)
Penetrating the Wilderness: Webb's Railroad	15	(6)
Hotels and the Birth of a Resort Community	21	(53)
Camp Crag, the First Hotel on Big Moose Lake, 1880	21	(10)
Higby Camp, 1891	31	(7)
Lake View Lodge, 1898	38	(8)
The Hotel Glennmore, 1899	46	(6)
Burdick's, Waterman's, and the Big Moose Inn, 1903	52	(5)
The Waldheim, 1904	57	(8)
Veery's Nest, 1925	65	(2)
Covewood, 1925	67	(7)
Making a Living at Big Moose Lake	74	(37)
The Glenns, the Sperrys, and Their Nearby Enterprises	74	(6)
Businessmen on the Lake	80	(24)
Ice Harvesting: A Community Enterprise	104	(7)
Ventures from Outside the Lake	111	(17)
The Boy Scout Pioneer Camp	111	(3)
Lumbering at Big Moose Lake	114	(10)
Local Loggers and Lumbering Stories	124	(4)
Private Homes and Camps Before World War II	128	(72)
Early Camps on West Bay	129	(16)
Three Linked Camps at the West End of the Main Lake	145	(14)
Into South Bay and Around to East Bay	159	(13)
Two Early Camps at the Eastern Head of the Lake	172	(4)
The Northern Side of the Main Lake	176	(6)
The North Shore	182	(18)
Major Events on the Lake	200	(9)
An American Tragedy and Big Moose Lake	200	(3)
Natural Disasters	203	(3)
Moss Lake and the Indian Occupation	206	(3)
Recreation	209	(22)
Early Amusements	211	(2)
Hiking Trails	213	(2)
Recollections of Hunting and Fishing in the 1930s	215	(4)
Boyhood Amusements	219	(2)
The Big Moose Lake Motor Regatta of 1941	221	(1)
Square Dancing at Covewood	222	(1)
The Early Days of Waterskiing	223	(4)
Later Waterskiing	227	(2)
The Big Moose Canoe Crew	229	(2)
The Big Moose Lake Community	231	(20)
The Big Moose Lake Schools	231	(4)
Community Groups	235	(6)
The Big Moose Property Owners Association, 1926-2001	241	(10)
Appendix A. Big Moose Lake at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century	251	(17)
Appendix B. The Webb Covenant	268	(2)
Appendix C. Big Moose Lake and the Adirondack Park Agency	270	(3)
Notes	273	(8)
Selected Bibliography	281	(2)
Index	283