Tales Of The White Mountains

Written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Introduction and historical epilogue by John T. B. Mudge. Current edition published by Durand Press 2001. 135 pages.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of America’s greatest writers, wrote four short stories about New Hampshire’s White Mountains that are an important part of the literary history of that region. Chronicled in the Historical Epilogue is the 1826 Willey Slide Disaster.