From the Book - First edition.
"All creation, lad". Paleo prelude --
The view from the Pine Orchard --
How old is the Hudson Valley? --
Life comes to the Hudson Valley --
The silence in the stones --
The coming of the wilden --
New Netherland. The first Europeans --
Thirty-two days on the road to Cathay --
An astonishing plentitude --
Esopus and the Indian Wars --
Petrus Stuyvesant's world --
The coming of the English --
The English period. The new hegemony --
An inglorious evolution --
Disposition of the patents --
The Yankee Doodle dandies --
From revolution to Federalism. Flight of the continentals --
The phoenix and the rose --
With the army at Newburgh --
Salutations and adieus --
A hot summer in Poughkeepsie --
The death of Federalism --
An emerging nationalism. Boy politicos --
What Rip Van Winkle saw --
Feats of the engineers --
The romantics. The antecedents --
Three paintings in a window --
Coming of age in the Hudson River Valley. An expanding economy --
The rising fury. Sam, Gramp and Ren --
The Civil War. The bearded stranger --