[PDF.02aq] Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America

Stairway to Empire: Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the Shaping of America

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 | #599377 in Books |  2009-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .86 x6.28 x9.28l,1.27 | File type: PDF | 309 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Good book|By William L. Bush|Good book| |"In this sagacious and thought-provoking study, McGreevy explores the multiple meanings of a once-renowned and significant American place experiencing the profound changes of industrialism and the onrushing market economy." -- Edward K. Muller

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The stunning achievement of the Erie Canal's completion is brought to life in this riveting story. In the spring of 1821, thousands of workers descended on the isolated village of Lockport, New York, twenty miles east of Niagara Falls. Their goal was to dig and blast a waterway through the so-called Mountain Ridge, the escarpment over which the Niagara River flows, and to divert some of that river's flow eastward, thus completing the Erie Canal. This final obstacle would...

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