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Presents the 1925 novel about Clyde Griffiths, an impoverished young man whose dreams of self-betterment lead him to commit a horrible murder.

During the 1950s, five high school girls in upstate New York form a gang called Foxfire.

Jenny Humphrey's escapades at the elite Waverly Academy in New York's horse country come to the attention of former campus queen Tinsley Carmichael as the two compete for the title of "It Girl.".

Deerslayer, or frontiersman Natty Bumppo, and his Mohican friend, Chingachgook, attempt to rescue a Native American maiden and avoid two white bounty hunters in upper state New York during the French and Indian Wars.

In this narrative history of the Mohawk River Valley and surrounding region from 1713 to1794, Professor Richard Berleth charts the passage of the valley from a fast-growing agrarian region streaming with colonial traffic to a war-ravaged wasteland. The valley s diverse cultural mix of Iroquois Indians, Palatine Germans, Scots-Irish, Dutch, English, and Highland Scots played as much of a role as its unique geography in the cataclysmic events of the 1700s the French and Indian Wars and the battles of the American Revolution. Patriots eventually wrenched the valley from British interests and the Iroquois nations, but at fearsome cost. When the fighting was over, the valley lay in ruins and as much as two-thirds of its population lay dead or had been displaced. But by not holding this vital inland waterway the gateway to the West, the river between the mountains America might have lost the Revolution, as well as much or all of the then poorly defined province of New York.

Contains two famous stories: The first of Ichabod Crane and his encounter with the headless horseman, and the second about Rip Van Winkle, who fell asleep and awakened twenty years later.

Text and illustrations present the life of John Jay, who fought for the U.S. as a diplomat and became the country's first Supreme Court chief justice; also includes a chronology, a Revolutionary War time line, a glossary, and a further reading list.

A three volume set which provides information on places in New York which are included in the National Register of Historic Places and are significant in American history, architecture, archeology, engineering, and culture.