Old Ninety-Nine's Cave

Reuben
OLD NINETY-NINE’S CAVE
BY ELIZABETH H. GRAY
Le Succès est un Devoir CMC Pub. Co. MCM
THE C. M. CLARK PUBLISHING CO. BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS 1909
Copyright, 1909 by The C. M. Clark Publishing Co. Boston, Massachusetts U. S. A.
All Rights Reserved
PRESS OF MURRAY AND EMERY COMPANY BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
DEDICATED To the loving memory of my Father and in grateful recognition to my friend J. F. C., whose encouragement made this book possible.
Tourists in the Shawangunk region are unanimous in pronouncing it one of the most beautiful spots east of the Mississippi, and in some respects unique on this continent. Mokonk and Minnewaska need no eulogy from any pen, Sam’s Point tells its own story, while the entire Rondout Valley has a charm of its own.
It has been the author’s good fortune to have access to old books and papers relating to the local tradition of “Old Ninety-Nine.” He is said to have been the last of the Delawares in the Rondout Valley, and, excepting his death, on which tradition is silent, the account given is the one generally told.
The house of Benny De Puy is still standing and the “very spring from which old Ninety-Nine drank on his way to and from his cave” yet gushes out not far from the door.