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The History of the White Mountains

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44:, and through much of it they were pioneers in the development of tourism there. Ill-health eventually took its toll on Ethan and during his final years he told Lucy of many episodes from his life which she was able to turn into a book about both him and the area. Ethan died on 22 June 1846 and the book was published soon after. Lucy died in 1869. 47:
Written in Ethan's voice, the 1846 edition, which Pavel Cenkl believes Lucy intended to be in large part a paean to Ethan, building up his image so that more people would might ask him to be their mountain guide, did not sell particularly well. Crawford wrote a revised version around 1860 that
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expanded the scope such that it contained more about the area, effectively reducing the concentration on Ethan's own life. This version was kept in the family until finally being published in 1966, with the editorial assistance of
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Lucy Howe was a first cousin of Ethan Allen Crawford, whom she married in November 1817. The couple had met while caring for their ailing grandfather, Eleazar Rosebrook, a pioneering hotelier at
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Christopher Johnson says "it was and remains a beloved White Mountain classic". and that the book is of a similar genre to those that recount tales of American pioneers such as
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and first published in 1846 with a revised edition published in 1883, and an expanded edition written in 1860 but not published until 1966.
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This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911
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The History of the White Mountains from the First Settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket
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The History of the White Mountains from the First Settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket
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This Grand & Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains
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Lucy Crawford
Crawford Notch
White Mountains
New Hampshire
Guildhall, Vermont
Stearns Morse
Davy Crockett
Daniel Boone
Johnson (2006)
Julyan & Julyan (1993)
Bennett (2003)
Cenkl (2009)
Cenkl (2009)
Cenkl (2009)
Johnson (2006)
The White Mountains: Alps of New England
ISBN
978-0-73852-433-7
This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911
ISBN
978-1-58729-714-4
This Grand & Magnificent Place: The Wilderness Heritage of the White Mountains
ISBN
978-1-58465-461-2
Place Names of the White Mountains
ISBN
978-0-87451-638-8
The History of the White Mountains from the First Settlement of Upper Coos and Pequaket
"The Papers of Lucy Crawford in the Dartmouth College Library"
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