Stairway to empire : Lockport, the Erie Canal, and the shaping of America /
McGreevy, Patrick.
Albany, N.Y. : SUNY Press,
c2009.
Leaving Lockport : and returning to the canal's beginning -- Locating Lockport : the canal and the continent's last barrier -- Cutting Lockport : laborers, citizens, and five years at the mountain ridge -- Writing Lockport : a dialogue on American progress -- Losing Lockport : afterlife of the mountain ridge conquest.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-290) and index.
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