Seneca Ray Stoddard

This is the story of a remarkable American from upstate New York who emerged from humble beginnings during the post-Civil War era to become a renowned artist author photographer explorer surveyor cartographer traveler inventor lecturer and Adirondack environmentalist over a six-decade career. In doing so he had a profound impact on the New York landscape that endures to the present day. However although his achievements should have been immortalized his name forever Seneca Ray Stoddard had been all but forgotten by the mid-twentieth century.