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The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend: Garnet Books

Editat de Dan DeLuca, Dionne Longley
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 sep 2008
In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers that he would complete every 34 days, for almost six years. His circuit took him through at least 41 towns in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York, sleeping in caves, accepting food from townspeople, and speaking only in grunts and gestures along the way. What remains of the mysterious Leather Man today are the news clippings and photographs taken by the first-hand witnesses of this captivating individual. The Old Leather Man gathers the best of the early newspaper accounts of the Leather Man, and includes maps of his route, historic photographs of his shelters, the houses he was known to stop at along his way, and of the Leather Man himself. This history tracks the footsteps of the Leather Man and unravels the myths surrounding the man who made Connecticut s caves his home."
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780819568625
ISBN-10: 0819568627
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 211 x 285 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: Wesleyan University Press
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Notă biografică

DAN DELUCA is a genealogist, a Meriden, Connecticut historian, and a retired high school teacher. He has been researching the Leather Man for twenty years and is the leading expert on the subject. DIONE LONGLEY is the former executive director of the Middlesex County Historical Society in Middletown, Connecticut.

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Fascinating documentation of a mysterious figure