SOURCES

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To historically decode one thousand Adirondack toponyms Place Name Dude examined more than 400 historical sources. Below are the one hundred proven most valuable for independent research. 

Ted Aber's Adirondack Folks (1980)

Ted Aber and Stella King's Tales From an Adirondack County (1961)

Ted Aber and Stella King's The History of Hamilton County (1965)

George Anderson's Our County and Its People (1899)

Seward Arnold's Reminiscences and Early History of Old Peru (1913)

Hilda Avery's A History of Oneida County (1977)

John Barber and Henry Howe's Historical Collections of the State of New York (1841)

William Barker's Early Families of Herkimer County, New York (1893)

David Beetle's West Canada Creek (1946)

George Bixby's Peter Sailly, a Pioneer of the Champlain Valley (1919)

George Brown's Pleasant Valley (1905)

Charles Brumley's Guides of the Adirondacks (1994)

Charles Burnett's Conquering the Wilderness (1932)

Russell Carson's Peaks and People of the Adirondacks (1927)

Hamilton Child's Gazetteer and Business Directory of Franklin and Clinton Counties, N.Y., for 1862-63 (1863)

Hamilton Child's Gazetteer and Business Directory of Herkimer County, N.Y., for 1869-70 (1870)

Hamilton Child's Gazetteer and Business Directory of Montgomery and Fulton Counties, N.Y., for 1869-70 (1870)

Hamilton Child's Gazetteer and Business Directory of St. Lawrence County, N.Y., for 1873-74 (1874)

Hamilton Child's Gazetteer and Business Directory of Washington County, N.Y., for 1871 (1871)

Verplanck Colvin's Report on the Topographical Survey of the Adirondack Wilderness of New York (1874)

Verplanck Colvin's Report on the Adirondack and State Land Surveys to the Year 1884 (1885)

Verplanck Colvin's Report on the Progress of the Adirondack Land Survey to the Year 1886 (1887)

Henry Cookinham's History of Oneida County, New York (1912)

Allen Corey's Gazetteer of the County of Washington, N.Y. (1850)

Louis Curth's The Forest Rangers (1987)

Gates Curtis's Our County and Its People (1894)

Maitland DeSormo's The Heydays of the Adirondacks (1974)

Alfred Donaldson's A History of the Adirondacks (1921)

Samuel Durant's History of Oneida County, New York (1878)

Samuel Durant's History of St. Lawrence County, New York (1878)

Peter Eisenstadt's The Encyclopedia of New York State (2005)

Edgar Emerson's Our County and Its People (1898)

Ebenezer Emmons's Natural History of New York (1854)

William Fox's A History of the Lumber Industry in the State of New York (1902)

John French's Gazetteer of the State of New York (1860)

Washington Frothingham's History of Fulton County (1892)

Washington Frothingham's History of Montgomery County (1892)

F.W. Beers and Company's History of Montgomery and Fulton Counties, N.Y. (1878)

Henry Gannett's The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (1905)

Thomas Gordon's Gazetteer of the State of New York (1836)

Nelson Greene's History of the Mohawk Valley (1925)

Simon Griffin's A History of the Town of Keene (1904)

Kelsie Harder and Carol Poole's Place Names of Franklin County, New York (2008)

George Hardin's History of Herkimer County, New York (1893)

Joel Headley's The Adirondack, or, Life in the Woods (1864)

Austin Holden's A History of the Town of Queensbury (1874)

Roy Honeywell's Broadalbin in History (1907)

Franklin Hough's A History of St. Lawrence and Franklin Counties, New York (1853)

Franklin Hough's Gazetteer of the State of New York (1872)

Franklin Hough's History of Lewis County, New York (1883)

Hurd and Houghton Publishing's The Opening of the Adirondacks (1865)

Duane Hurd's History of Clinton and Franklin Counties, New York (1880)

Floy Hyde's Adirondack Forests, Fields, and Mines (1974)

Crisfield Johnson's History of Washington County, New York (1878)

Pomroy Jones's Annals and Recollections of Oneida County (1851)

Benson Lossing's The Hudson (1866)

Mary MacKenzie and Lee Manchester's The Plains of Abraham (2007)

Lee Manchester's Tales From the Deserted Village (2011)

Bob Marshall's The High Peaks of the Adirondacks (1922)

Arthur Masten's The Story of Adirondac (1968)

Barbara McMartin's Caroga (1976)

Barbara McMartin's eleven-title Discover series of guidebooks (1987-2005)

William Henry Harrison Murray's Lake Champlain and Its Shores (1890)

Henry Noble's A Sketch of the History of the Town of Essex, New York (1940)

Peter Palmer's History of Lake Champlain (1889) 

Peter Palmer's History of Plattsburgh, N.Y. (1877)

William Pelletreau's History of Putnam County, New York (1886)

Henry Raymond's The Story of Saranac (1909)

Millard Roberts's A Narrative History of Remsen, New York (1914)

Caroline Halstead Royce's Bessboro (1902)

Carlton Sanford's Early History of the Town of Hopkinton (1903)

Paul Schneider's The Adirondacks (1997)

Frederick Seaver's Historical Sketches of Franklin County and Its Several Towns (1918)

Jeptha Simms's The Frontiersmen of New York (1882) 

Jeptha Simms's Tappers of New York (1871)

Henry Smith's History of Essex County (1885)

Robert Smith's History of Warren County (1885)

Horatio Spafford's A Gazetteer of the State of New York (1813 and 1824)

Seneca Ray Stoddard's Lake George and Lake Champlain (1915)

Seneca Ray Stoddard's Lake George and Ticonderoga (1873)

Seneca Ray Stoddard's The Adirondacks Illustrated (1874 and 1881)

Seneca Ray Stoddard's Wild Adirondack Lakes (1889)

William Stone's Washington County, New York (1901)

Alfred Street's The Indian Pass (1869)

Nathaniel Sylvester's Historical Sketches of Northern New York and the Adirondack Wilderness (1877)

Nathaniel Sylvester's History of Saratoga County, New York (1878)

Tim Tefft's Of the Summits, of the Forests (1991)

John Todd's Long Lake (1845)

Jeanette Brookings Tuttle's Three Centuries in Champlain Valley (1909)

Daniel Wager's Our County and its People, a Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York (1896)

Edwin Wallace's Descriptive Guide to the Adirondacks (1882 and 1894)

Charles Warner's History of Port Henry, N.Y. (1891)

Guy and Laura Waterman's Forest and Crag (1989)

Winslow Watson's Pioneer History of the Champlain Valley (1863)

Winslow Watson's The Military and Civil History of the County of Essex, New York (1869)

Sandra Weber's Mount Marcy (2001)

William White's Adirondack Country (1954)

Francis Whiting's The Old New York Frontier (1901)