Title: The developer's frontier
First published: 1988
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.
Subjects: Cities and towns, Frontier and pioneer life, Historical geography, History, Land settlement patterns, Land use, Rural, Rural Land use, Landscape architecture, New york (n.y.), description and travel
Places: New York (State), Western, Western New York (State)
LC classification: F128.44 .W93 1988