Whenever snow depths reach a certain point, writes Tom Lounsbury, snowshoes allow him to effectively walk on top of the snow ...

One of the most rugged and toughest individuals in the outdoors I've ever read about was John "Snowshoe" Thompson (1827-1876), who delivered mail and much needed supplies back and forth from Nevada to ...

Snowshoeing in the Catskills remains a traditional form of recreation. In the Adirondacks, however, snowshoeing is a way of life. In some remote towns, it's the only way to get to the general store ...

For hundreds of years, snowshoe technology remained unchanged. Wood and rawhide provided the foundation of design. Then came the revolution. In the 1970s, brothers Bill and Gene Prater founded Sherpa ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Collected in 1954 by William F.