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- 1 2 Rockwell, Charles (1867). The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around. New York: Taintor Brothers & Co. pp. 2.
- ↑ Legends And Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley by Jonathan Kruk
- ↑ Henry Hudson and the Algonquins of New York