Bibliograph

Overcoming Niagara, canals, commerce, and tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region, 1792-1837, Janet Dorothy Larkin

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Overcoming Niagara, canals, commerce, and tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region, 1792-1837, Janet Dorothy Larkin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Overcoming Niagara

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

975270313

Responsibility statement

Janet Dorothy Larkin

Sub title

canals, commerce, and tourism in the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region, 1792-1837

Table Of Contents

The "Greatest display in nature" : the Niagara-Great Lakes borderland region before the War of 1812 -- "As irresistible as the 'cataract of Niagara'" : the Erie Canal and the promises of the North American canal age -- "A salutary and desirable competition" : New York State influence in the building of the first Welland Canal -- The Oswego Canal : "One of the great travelling and commercial thoroughfares" -- "The great wonder of the canal."

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