The Navigators
Subtitle: A Journal of Passage on the Waterways of New York 1793 (New York State Museum Bulletin 498)
Publisher: New York State Museum
Published: March 20, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9781555571429
Subjects: United States - Mid Atlantic - New York
First sentence: Two hundred years ago, a pioneer migrating west, newly arrived in Albany and hungry for land, an Albany merchant anxious to ship merchandise to the expanding western settlements, or a military commander supplying essential provisions to the garrisons along our western frontier, faced an inadequate and severely restricted transportation network.