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Why the Wilderness is called Adirondack by Henry Dornburgh
Why the Wilderness is called Adirondack by Henry Dornburgh
The earliest account of the founding of the MacIntyre Mine
Soft Cover
32 pages
Copyright 1980
CONTENTS
The Origin of the Great Name of the Adirondacks
The Indian Pass
Hendersons Lake
Sanford Lake
Hendersons Monument
PUBLISHER'S PREFACE
In republishing Henry Dornburgh's celebrated story of the Adirondack Iron Works, the first impulse might have been to accompany the text by a comprehensive set of notes and references and, above all, to identify for the modern reader some of the persons mentioned in the course of the narrative. Had such an impulse been followed, the note apparatus might easily have exceeded the text proper in size.
The story of the Adirondack Iron Works, or The Maclntyre Mine, has been most ably told in several more recent works, notably by Arthur H. Masten in his The Story of Adirondac,
and by Harold K. Hochschild, in his The Maclntyre Mine -
From Failure to Fortune. Both of these publications are so well documented that it seemed superfluous to repeat their documentation. Rather, the reader is strongly urged to consult either or both of these works. (*)
Henry Dornburgh's story was first printed in the Glens Falls Daily Times in 1885 and then reprinted as a self-contained pamphlet by that newspaper the same year, a pamphlet which is now of extreme rarity. Dornburgh was not a man of letters and his story was written with little sense of literary style. Spelling and his particular style of narrative have been left entirely unedited except for correcting some obvious printing errors but a few relative pronouns and explanatory notes have been added [ in brackets] where they improved the ease of reading. A modest improvement of punctuation has also been effected. The most radical feature in the editing, however, is the breaking down of the text into reasonable paragraphs. This edition has been reset from the 1885 pamphlet edition which was set in a very small type, entirely unleaded and almost entirely unparagraphed. The printer, not the author, was clearly to blame for this.
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