This prized offering by local author and historian John M. Ham is the authoritative inventory of the grand resorts, hotels, and boarding houses of the Northern Catskills. Drawing on countless sources and including many never-before-published images, One Hundred Years on Resort Ridge illustrates and records the history and locations of everything from the most significant hotels to the smallest farmhouses that let rooms during the golden age of the Catskill resort industry. Spanning a date range from 1824 through the late 1960s, this book comprehensively details hundreds of famed resorts on 448 glossy pages and will undoubtedly be a handsome feature on any coffee table or historian’s bookshelf. This text should be considered an indispensable publications for regional residents with an affinity for local heritage and for those from far and wide with fond memories of bygone Summers in the Catskills.