The developer's frontier
Subtitle: the making of the western New York landscape
By: William Wyckoff.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1988
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Land settlement patterns -- New York (State), Western -- History.; Land use, Rural -- New York (State), Western -- History.; Frontier and pioneer life -- New York (State), Western.; Cities and towns -- New York (State), Western -- History.; New York (State), Western -- Historical geography.
Description: This book tells how one nineteenth-century group of developers, the Holland Land Company, promoted and organized a settlement of vast wilderness tracts in western New York state. Wyckoff shows that the experience of eastern developers was distinctive from that of other frontier settlers; unlike the isolated pioneer of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier model or the land speculator in search of quick profits that other historians have described, eastern frontier developers fostered long-term settlement and regional growth by means of carefully formulated and comprehensive plans. - Jacket flap.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 223-231.
Includes index.