Shrouded Memories: True Stories from the White Mountains of New Hampshire

2002. By Floyd W. Ramsey. The best-selling collection of 18 true stories from New Hampshire's White Mountains looks back at some of the most memorable events and people of the past two centuries. Included are the tragic Willey Slide of 1826, the mounaintop death of Lizzie Bourne (first woman to perish atop Mount Washington, and the spectacular crash of a World War Two bomber on the slopes of Mount Waternomee in January 1942. The author also looks back at the lives of pioneer settler Dolly Copp and legendary timber baron James Everell Henry of Lincoln, N.H. fame. Softcover. 270 pp.