Mountains. The two men developed the land with remote hunting cabins that were primarily used in summer; Prime was a keen fisherman. Ice was harvested from the lake by local workers to be stored in the ice shed for use over the summer months. The property was co-owned by the two men from the mid 1800s to 1898 when the property was sold to the Profile & Flume Hotel company. Prime died at his home in New York City on February 13, 1905. Bibliography His published writings include: The Owl-Creek Letters and Other Correspondences (1848) The Old House by the River (1853) Later Years (1854) Boat Life in Egypt and Nubia (1857) Tent Life in the Holy Land (1857) Coins, Medals, and Seals, Ancient and Modern (1861) O Mother dear, Jerusalem: The Old Hymn, its Origin and Genealogy (1865) I Go A Fishing (1873) Holy Cross: A History of the Invention, Preservation, and Disappearance of the Wood Known as the True Cross (1877) Pottery and Porcelain of all Times and Nations (1878) Along New England Roads (1892) Among the Northern Hills (1893) Prime provided an introduction to the English-language version of Théophile Gautier's Romance of the Mummy (1863). In 1886, as literary executor of General George B. McClellan, Prime edited "McClellan's Own Story", which included a biographical sketch written by Prime. References External links Tent life in the Holy Land. By William C. Prime, New York: Harper & brothers, 1857. The full text online, University of Michigan Library. Short obituary in the Princeton Alumni Weekly Princeton University alumni American lawyers People from Cambridge, New York American non-fiction writers American male journalists 1825 births 1905 deaths 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Journalists from New York City American art collectors American art historians People associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Historians from New York (state)