Old Ninety-Nine's Cave

Chapter 2: ILLUSTRATIONS

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About This Book

The narrative unfolds in the Shawangunk Mountains and Rondout Valley, weaving a local legend about an elderly member of the Delaware people who is linked to a remote cave into the daily life of a valley family and their neighbors. It traces family conversations and decisions over a valuable mining claim, outside interests seeking to develop the land, and the economic hopes tied to railroads and industry. Interlacing folklore, vivid landscape description, and community drama, the work examines tensions between tradition and progress as natural beauty, local history, and personal fortunes collide.

DEDICATED
To the loving memory of my Father and in grateful
recognition to my friend J. F. C., whose
encouragement made this book possible.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Reuben	Frontispiece
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Margaret	61
Into this den of venomous serpents, only the hardy dared penetrate	149
Tim Watson	170
Jack De Vere	194
Beyond the hills melting into a pinkish haze	206
Canal boats still crept sleepily on	248
Sam’s Point	255
The Rondout Creek tumbled musically over the rocks below forming many beautiful cascades	292
The laurels take on a rosier hue in the warm afterglow	308