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Author : Martin J. Naparsteck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780989120937
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)
Download or read book A Death on the Erie Canal written by Martin J. Naparsteck and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jack Kelly
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1137280093
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Heaven's Ditch written by Jack Kelly and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A page-turning narrative, Heaven's Ditch offers an excitingly fresh look at a heady, foundational moment in American history. The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream; they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outburst of imagination in American history. Zealots invented new religions and new modes of living. The Erie Canal made New York the financial capital of America and brought the modern world crashing into the frontier. Men and women saw God face to face, gained and lost fortunes, and reveled in a period of intense spiritual creativity. Heaven's Ditch by Jack Kelly illuminates the spiritual and political upheavals along this "psychic highway" from its opening in 1825 through 1844. "Wage slave" Sam Patch became America's first celebrity daredevil. William Miller envisioned the apocalypse. Farm boy Joseph Smith gave birth to Mormonism, a new and distinctly American religion. Along the way, the reader encounters America's very first "crime of the century," a treasure hunt, searing acts of violence, a visionary cross-dresser, and a panoply of fanatics, mystics, and hoaxers.
Author : Johnny Mack Hood
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491851279
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)
Download or read book The Erie Murders written by Johnny Mack Hood and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our young detective couple, JC and Susan Shelby, embarks in Chicago on a small ship tour of the Great Lakes, the Erie Canal, Hudson River, and Manhattan. What should have been a much deserved rest from their arduous immediately past adventures turns into a nightmare experience with death at Niagara Falls among other places along their colorful tour route. A large group of fellow passengers, a family of seven from North Dakota celebrating an inheritance with a hopefully pleasant vacation, begin to have some very bad luck death strikes in a mysterious fashion. JCs rank as a Navy Lieutenant in Intel service of the US Navy and the Shelbys past success in solving murder crimes results in their being put on the case by the FBI where they struggle with a series of disappearing suspects. The case finally ends, not in Rhode Island at the end of the cruise where everyone was sure it would, but in Arizona and New York City.
Author : Bill Hullfish & Laurie Fortune Verbridge
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146714830X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Brockport Murder Dog Trial, The: Bizarre Tragedy and Spectacle on the Erie Canal written by Bill Hullfish & Laurie Fortune Verbridge and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1936, fourteen-year-old Maxwell Breeze was playing in the waters of the Erie Canal in Brockport when a dog jumped into the canal and climbed his back, and the boy drowned. The owner of the dog was served notice to appear at a hearing, at which time a trial was set to determine if the dog should be put down. The unusual case captivated the nation as newspapers from coast to coast covered the story, Paramount Pictures dispatched The Eyes and Ears of the World to film the events and a media circus descended on the quiet village. During the trial, more than thirty witnesses were called, including a national expert brought in to evaluate the canine defendant, which journalists referred to as the most talked-of dog on earth. Authors Bill Hullfish and Laurie Fortune Verbridge reveal the bizarre incident, trial and spectacle that came to Brockport.
Author : Dan Egan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393246442
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Death and Life of the Great Lakes written by Dan Egan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Award "Nimbly splices together history, science, reporting and personal experiences into a taut and cautiously hopeful narrative.… Egan’s book is bursting with life (and yes, death)." —Robert Moor, New York Times Book Review The Great Lakes—Erie, Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Superior—hold 20 percent of the world’s supply of surface fresh water and provide sustenance, work, and recreation for tens of millions of Americans. But they are under threat as never before, and their problems are spreading across the continent. The Death and Life of the Great Lakes is prize-winning reporter Dan Egan’s compulsively readable portrait of an ecological catastrophe happening right before our eyes, blending the epic story of the lakes with an examination of the perils they face and the ways we can restore and preserve them for generations to come.
Author : John Cull
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985770396
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Song of the Erie Canal written by John Cull and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A set of short fictional stories all set on or about the Erie Canal. The author grew up along the banks of the Erie Canal and gives us a candid view of things many may be unaware of, though it is certainly not dull. It is interesting and engaging. It will make you want more of the same sorts of stories.
Author : Patrick Egan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Ned and Ashtabula written by Patrick Egan and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 19th century along the valley of the Erie Canal, a series of unexplainable deaths have occurred. Meanwhile, miles to the east young Ned Spicer is about to experience life on the canal. His father has recently purchased a canal boat for the purpose of carrying goods to the towns of the west, deep into the heart of the cursed valley. As they travel towards the center of the odd and peculiar incidents, father and son join up with a donkey with unusual powers, a pretty young girl named Anise, a witch who can read the future, a priest, a sheriff and a young shaman spirit guide. The adventures of Ned and Ashtabula climax in a scene that smells of revenge and brimstone depriving some of their loved ones. Terror, fear and superstition permeate the story.
Author : Rosemary Gail Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614684022
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Building the Erie Canal written by Rosemary Gail Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rome, NY, 1817: Jamie Doyle comes from a French-Irish family that has been building canals since the 17th Century Canal du Midi in the Languedoc region of France. After a shattering experience at Waterloo, Jamie spends the next two years touring the canals of Europe. With recommendation letters from the most famous canal builder in England, Jamie and his new wife Maggie travel to New York in May 1817 hoping to join construction of the Erie Canal. Chief Engineer Benjamin Wright is pleased to hire a man with Jamie's experience, but first has an additional assignment. Jamie must learn who and why at least one of the workers on the first section of the Canal was brutally murdered before that death disrupts an already rain-delayed construction project. Jamie has no crime investigation experience. It is an expertise he has no desire to develop. But he does want to help build the Erie. His wife wants to help Jamie succeed. Neither Jamie nor Maggie know anything about New York. They are fortunate to meet three Oneida Indians who do.
Author : Peter L. Bernstein
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393340201
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)
Download or read book Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation written by Peter L. Bernstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller The epic account of how one narrow ribbon of water forever changed the course of American history. The history of the Erie Canal is a riveting story of American ingenuity. A great project that Thomas Jefferson judged to be “little short of madness,” and that others compared with going to the moon, soon turned into one of the most successful and influential public investments in American history. In Wedding of the Waters, best-selling author Peter L. Bernstein recounts the canal’s creation within the larger tableau of a youthful America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Leaders of the fledgling nation had quickly recognized that the Appalachian mountain range was a formidable obstacle to uniting the Atlantic states with the vast lands of the west. A pathway for commerce as well as travel was critical to the security and expansion of the Revolution’s unprecedented achievement. Gripped by the same fever that had driven explorers such as Hudson and Champlain, a motley assortment of politicians, surveyors, and would-be engineers set out to build a complex structure of a type few of them had ever actually seen, let alone built or operated: a manmade waterway cut through the mountains to traverse the 363 miles between Lake Erie and the Hudson River. By linking the seas to the interior and the interior to the seas, these pioneers ultimately connected the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Bernstein examines the social ramifications, political squabbles, and economic risks and returns of this mammoth project. He goes on to demonstrate how the canal’s creation helped bind the western settlers in the new lands to their fellow Americans in the original colonies, knitted the sinews of the American industrial revolution, and even influenced profound economic change in Europe. Featuring a rich cast of characters that includes political visionaries like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Martin van Buren; the canal’s most powerful champions, Governor DeWitt Clinton and Gouverneur Morris; and a huge platoon of Irish and American diggers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history.
Author : Boone Triplett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467112526
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Ohio and Erie Canal written by Boone Triplett and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating history of the Ohio and Erie Canal, from a national leader in agricultural output to a recreational resource. George Washington first proposed the idea of a canal connecting the Great Lakes to the Ohio-Mississippi River System in 1784. Inspired by the Erie Canal in New York, the State of Ohio began surveying routes in 1822 for its own grand internal improvement project. Completed a decade later, the 309-mile-long Ohio and Erie Canal connected Cleveland, Akron, Massillon, Dover, Roscoe, Newark, Columbus, Circleville, Chillicothe, Waverly, and Portsmouth. Success was immediate, as this vital transportation link provided access to Eastern markets. Within a span of 35 years, canals transformed Ohio from a rural frontier wilderness into the nation's leader in agricultural output and third most populous state by 1860. Railroads marked the end of the canal as an economic engine, but traffic continued to operate until the Great Flood of 1913 destroyed the system as a commercial enterprise. Today, the Ohio and Erie Canal is enjoying a rebirth as a recreational resource.
Author : Irene Fox Uttendorfsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962571428
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (714 download)
Download or read book Hannah and the Two Sisters written by Irene Fox Uttendorfsky and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History comes alive in this realistic heartwarming story about a brave and determined young woman who survives heartbreak and disappointment after her mother's death in the final days of the Civil War ... Hannah endures the hardships of life on a canal boat with her father, cliniging to the hope that her true love will return from the war."--Back cover.
Author : Cheryl Harness
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780689825842
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Amazing Impossible Erie Canal written by Cheryl Harness and published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IMPOSSIBLE! When De Witt Clinton, a young politician, first dreams of building a canal to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, folks don't believe such a thing can be done. But eight long years after the first shovelful of earth is dug, Clinton realizes his vision at last. The longest uninterrupted canal in history has been built, and it is now possible to travel by water from the American prairie all the way to Europe! Join Cheryl Harness on a fascinating and fun-filled trip as she depicts the amazing construction and workings of the Erie Canal. From the groundbreaking ceremony on the Fourth of July in 1817 to a triumphant journey down America's first superhighway, it's a trip you definitely don't want to miss.
Author : David Michael Smith
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583679898
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)
Download or read book Endless Holocausts written by David Michael Smith and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An argument against the myth of "American exceptionalism" Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism has plagued the globe for over a century. However much the ruling class insists on U.S. superiority, we find ourselves in the midst of a sea change. Perpetual wars, deteriorating economic conditions, the resurgence of white supremacy, and the rise of the Far Right have led millions of people to abandon their illusions about this country. Never before have so many people rejected or questioned traditional platitudes about the United States. In Endless Holocausts author David Michael Smith demolishes the myth of exceptionalism by demonstrating that manifold forms of mass death, far from being unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benign historical record, have been indispensable in the rise of the wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world. At the same time, Smith points to an extraordinary history of resistance by Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, people in other nations brutalized by U.S. imperialism, workers, and democratic-minded people around the world determined to fight for common dignity and the sake of the greater good.
Author : Carol Sheriff
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780809016051
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Artificial River written by Carol Sheriff and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1997-06-12 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Eric Canal is the story of industrial and economic progress between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The Artificial River reveals the human dimension of the story of the Erie Canal. Carol Sheriff's extensive, innovative archival research shows the varied responses of ordinary people-farmers, businessmen, government officials, tourists, workers-to this major environmental, social, and cultural transformation in the early life of the Republic. Winner of Best Manuscript Award from the New York State Historical Association "The Artificial River is deeply researched, its arguments are both subtle and clear, and it is written with grace and an engagingly light touch. The book merits a wide readership." --Paul Johnson, The Journal of American History
Author : Gail Meath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Path of Treasures written by Gail Meath and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a mule driver on the Erie Canal until they killed the man she cherished most.A beautiful mule driver, the champion fighter who raised her, a half-breed Indian without a heart and an easy-going cowboy team up to track down outlaws and notoriously become known as Streeter's Gang. This is their beginning... Wolfe McKay and his partner have another job to do...kill the leader of the Canaller's Coalition and his crew, then collect their bounty of ten thousand dollars from the railroad tycoon who hired them. But Wolfe soon discovers that this job is far more complicated. Sara grew up on the Erie Canal with Jeremiah Streeter, owner of Streeter's Ark, and Sam, the Ark's bully. She never cared about who her parents were or where she came from, not until their helmsman is murdered and they hire a replacement.As Streeter's Ark travels from Albany to Buffalo, Wolfe's purpose takes a drastic turn when he and the crew find themselves involved in a deadly plot and a race against time to stop it before Sara is killed.
Author : John Louis O'Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report in Favor of the Abolition of the Punishment of Death by Law written by John Louis O'Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald E. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813145821
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Canals For A Nation written by Ronald E. Shaw and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.
