Listen for a Lonesome Drum: A York State Chronicle (New York Classics)

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Summary: A wonderful, quirky history of upstate New York.
Review: This is a great little volume that captures the diverse, quirky and often wierd history of upstate NY, replete with scoundrels, saints and sinners brought to life with wry wit. If you grew up there, or still live there, it will make you take another look around and appreciate the odd but marvelous outcome when "rugged individualism" meets gentlemen farmer and frontier intellegensia. A great read. If you like it check out "The Loomis Gang," another upstate history.