Rip Van Winkle's Neighbors

Rip Van Winkle's NeighborsExplores the social and economic transformations of the mid Hudson River Valley during the key expansionist period in American history. Although Rip Van Winkle was a fictional character, his community in the mid Hudson Valley of New York State was very real. Thomas S. Wermuth's book shows that the popular view of Hudson Valley farmers as self sufficient, independent, and free of governmental authority is as fictional as the character of Rip Van Winkle

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