A history of the New York counties of Chemung, Tioga, Tompkins, Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Cayuga, Seneca, Schuyler, Steuben, Yates, Ontario, Allegany, Cattaraugus, Monroe, Chautauqua, Orleans, Bradford, Northumberland, Tioga, Lycoming, Potter, and McKean, giving descriptions of old-time customs, hunting, and fishing, raisings, political campaigns, etc., together with descriptions of mountain scenery, coal mines, canals, railroads, villages, towns, cities, and many other interesting reminiscences. Among the Railroads described are the New York, Lake Erie & Western, with the Tioga Branch; the Corning, Cowanesque & Antrim; the Syracuse, Geneva & Corning; the Jersey Shore and Pine Creek; the Northern Central; the Lehigh Valley; the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western; the Elmira, Cortland, & Northern; Addison and Northern Pennsylvania, and the Southern Central.