This scrapbook collection of trail clippings, compiled by Frank Place, consists of
news items and articles from newspapers and magazines pertaining to walking and
hiking trails. Also included are some poems about walking. Most of the clippings are
from New York and New Jersey newspapers, primarily from The
New York Times and The Evening Post.
Articles about walking written by Place are included, as are clippings from a weekly
column called "The Long Brown Path" by Raymond H.
Torrey which appeared in The New York Evening Post.