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The Forestport Breaks: A Nineteenth Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal
The Forestport Breaks A Nineteenth Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal
Author: Michael Doyle
The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of Forestport was struggling just to survive. Then the canal levees started breaking, and the boom times returned. The Forestport saloons flourished, the town's gamblers rollicked, and the politically con...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780815607724
ISBN-10: 0815607725
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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