The Artificial River
Subtitle: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: June 12, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780809016051
Subjects: United States - 19th Century; History; History - U.S.; History: American; United States - Antebellum Era; United States - State & Local - General; History / United States / General
First sentence: ON JULY 4, 1817, at daybreak, cannons boomed as a crowd assembled near Rome, New York, to watch the digging of the first spadeful of Erie Canal dirt.