Rambles in Colonial By-Ways is a book by Rufus Rockwell Wilson, published in fifteen chapters over two volumes in 1901 by J. B. Lippincott Company. It includes photogravures and half-tones from drawings and photographs by William Lincoln Hudson. It was described as being "rich in memories of the past" and "treat[ing] colonial matters upon an entirely novel plan." William Hilton, in the Boston Home Journal, described the book as being "one of the most pleasant travel-books of the period."
Some of the chapters are based on passages which appeared in Lippincott's, Harper's Weekly, The New England Magazine and Churchman but were substantially rewritten.
Chapters
Volume I
Two Atlantic Islands Some Colonial Nooks Rambles in Old New York In the Wake of the Patroons The Albany Post Road The Land of the Six Nations The West Bank of the Hudson
Volume II
Along the Eastern Shore The City of the Friends Penn's Manor and Beyond God's Peculiar People Bethlehem and Around There Three Groups of German Mystics Through Washington's Country Yorktown and Her Neighbors
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