North Country / Adirondack Author
The Post-Star, March 14, 2009—Little guy fights back: In Oliver’s War: An Adirondack Rebel Battles the Rockefeller Fortune, author Lawrence P. Gooley writes a true account of how a small time Adirondack homeowner named Oliver Lamora took a stand for his land against the affluent William Rockefeller.
Sun Community News, July 26, 2008—Book depicts “long misrepresented story”: Author Lawrence P. Gooley of Peru has recently published his latest book, Oliver’s War: An Adirondack Rebel Battles the Rockefeller Fortune, depicting such themes in what he calls a long misrepresented story.
A hundred years ago, an epic battle in New York’s Adirondack Mountains left a lasting impact on the nation’s largest state park. Oliver Lamora, a poor Civil War pensioner and lumberjack of French-Canadian descent went toe-to-toe with William Rockefeller, one of the world’s richest men. Their decade-long feud is chronicled…
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Author Lawrence P. Gooley discusses his books, Out of the Darkness, The Battle of Plattsburgh Question & Answer Book, A History of the Altona Flat Rock, Silver Anniversary Edition, and more on Home Town Cable’s Our Little Corner.
The Post-Star, June 5, 2005—Recalling a legacy of mining: In Clinton County, iron was king. The mines around Lyon Mountain, operated by the Chateaugay Ore and Iron Company, were established by the early 1870s and closed in 1967. By the late 1880s, the population of Lyon Mountain swelled to more than 3,500, “making it the second-largest community in the Adirondacks after Saranac Lake,” according to a review of Lawrence Gooley’s new book, Lyon Mountain: The Tragedy of a Mining Town, written by Neal Burdick for the May/June issue of the Adirondack Explorer.