Have you read any good books lately on Saranac Lake or Adirondack History? Are there books that you find particularly good? Let others know about them here. Just add their title and author at the bottom of the page.
- Adirondack Churches: A History of Design and Building by Sally E. Svenson
- Adirondack Fire Towers: Their History and Lore, The Northern Districts by Martin Podskoch
- Adirondack Golf Courses . . . Past and Present by J. Peter Martin
- Adirondack Photographers, 1850-1950, by Sally E. Svenson
- Adirondack Ice: A Cultural and Natural History by Caperton Tissot
- The Adirondacks Illustrated by Seneca Ray Stoddard
- Adventures in the wilderness, or, Camp-life in the Adirondacks by William Henry Harrison Murray
- A Grand Complication by Stacy Perman
- A Rare Romance in Medicine by Mary B. Hotaling
- An Autobiography by Edward Livingston Trudeau
- Annual Report of the Forest Commission for the year 1893
- Annual Report of the Forest Commission for the year 1902/1903
- The Beloved Physician: Edward Livingston Trudeau by Stephen Chalmers
- Blacks in the Adirondacks by Sally E. Svenson
- The Brighton Story: Being the History of Paul Smiths, Gabriels and Rainbow Lake by Geraldine Collins
- Camp Chronicles by Mildred Phelps Stokes Hooker
- Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake by Philip L. Gallos
- Descriptive Guide to the Adirondacks by Edwin R. Wallace
- Everybody Was So Young, Gerald and Sara Murphy, a Lost Generation Love Story, by Amanda Vaill
- Exposing the wilderness: early twentieth-century Adirondack postcard photographers by Robert Bogdan
- The Extraordinary Adirondack Journey of Clarence Petty by Christopher Angus
- Fifty Years at Trudeau Sanatorium by Elizabeth Cole
- Finding True North by Fran Yardley
- Footsteps & Sunset on Adirondack Trails by Charles A. Wardner
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The Forgotten Plague: Tuberculosis in America, PBS, The American Experience
- A Franklin Manor Christmas by Paul Willcott (novella and cd)
- Great Camps of the Adirondacks by Harvey H. Kaiser
- The Great Forest of the Adirondacks by Barbara McMartin
- Guides of the Adirondacks: A History by Charles Brumley
- The Healing Woods, by Martha Reben
- Henry P. Leis: The Man from Saranac Lake by Marie Elizabeth Leis Pearce
- The Heydays of the Adirondacks by Maitland DeSormo
- Historical Sketches of Franklin County by Frederick J. Seaver
- History between the lines : women's lives and Saranac Lake customs by Caperton Tissot
- A History of the Adirondacks by Alfred L. Donaldson
- History of Clinton and Franklin counties, New York by Duane Hamilton Hurd
- In the shadow of the White Plague : a memoir by Elizabeth Mooney
- Journal of the Outdoor Life
- The Last Camilles: A True Story by Gwynn McDougal, an account of her cure in a sanatorium in Rutland, Massachusetts, around 1950.
- The Last Crusade : the war on consumption, 1862-1954 by Mark Caldwell
- Last Lambs on the Mountain by Florence Mulhern
- Loomis : The Man, The Sanitarium, and The Search for The Cure by John Conway
- Louis Marshall and the Rise of Jewish Ethnicity in America, a biography by M. M. Silver
- Love, Fiercely: A Guilded Age Romance by Jean Zimmerman
- Mountain Shadows by Patricia Reiss Brooks
- My Father by Peter Bartok
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Onchiota Remembered by Phil Fitzpatrick
- A Past To Remember, A Future to Mold by Dora, Donna and Mildred Keough, eds.
- Paul Smith's Adirondack Hotel and College by Neil Surprenant
- The Plains of Abraham: A History of North Elba and Lake Placid by Mary MacKenzie
- The Plague and I by Betty MacDonald, her account of curing in a Seattle sanatorium in 1938-39.
- Portrait of healing : curing in the woods by Victoria E. Rinehart
- The Privately Owned Adirondacks by Barbara McMartin
- Rebel Cinderella, from Rags to Riches to Radical, the Epic Journey of Rose Pastor Stokes, by Adam Hochschild
- The Reverend Samuel Smith and Family, 1804-2006 by James and Patricia Richards
- Rules for Recovery from pulmonary tuberculosis: a layman's handbook of treatment by Dr. Lawrason Brown
- Rural Indigenousness by Melissa Otis,
- Saranac 1937-1940: A Memoir by Richard H. Ray
- Saranac: America's Magic Mountain by Robert Taylor
- Saranac Lake: Pioneer Health Resort by Mark Caldwell
- Saranac Lake Requiem, a novel, by Shel Damsky
- Saranac Lake Revisited, a novel, by Shel Damsky
- Stokes Records by Anson Phelps Stokes
- Summers on the Saranacs by Maitland DeSormo
- A Tuberculosis Directory Containing a List of Institutions, Associations and Other Agencies
- We Take to Bed, a novel, by Marshall McClintock, 1931.
- Well Diary . . . I Have Tuberculosis: Researching a Teenager's 1918 Sanatorium Experience by Shirley Morgan, 2014
- Where did the Tracks Go in the Central Adirondacks by Michael Kudish
- The Wilderness Cure, by Marc Cook
- Wish I Might, by Isabel Smith
- Woods and Waters, or Summer in the Saranacs by Alfred Billings Street
- Woods and Waters, Or, The Saranacs and Racket by Alfred Billings Street
See also: Saranac Lake History Bibliography
Other Resources
- The Adirondack Research Room of the Saranac Lake Free Library has thousands of photographs as well as maps, books and other documents.
- The archives of the Adirondack Daily Enterprise (1948-2008) are available at a site run by the Northern New York Library Network (NNYLN).
- Other north country newspapers on the NNYLN site can be searched here. A great deal of our content comes from the NNYLN Newspaper Archive.
- The Adirondack Experience has more than 2,700 items related to Saranac Lake in its collection, 2,400 of which are photographs.
- Bunk's Place mixes history and nostalgia; there are some wonderful materials.
- Phil Fitzpatrick has assembled a huge collection of photographs of Onchiota and environs here.
- New York State Archives has more than 180 historic photographs of Saranac Lake.
- The Library of Congress has more than 150 historic photographs of Saranac Lake.
- New York Public Library has more than 50 historic photographs of Saranac Lake.
- the Northern New York Tombstone Transcription Project lists the burials in most cemeteries in the area.
- Maps: Websites that have links to historic, digitized maps that include the Adirondacks and northern New York, compiled by John Sasso