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The Forestport Breaks. A Nineteenth Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal.
Michael Doyle
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Description for The Forestport Breaks. A Nineteenth Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal.
Doyle begins with a family mystery (the precise location of a grave) and ends with a reconstruction of what one New York lawman called the most damnable conspiracy ever hatched in the state. It concerned the struggling upstate logging town of Forestport and a series of breaks in the levees on the Erie Canal that flooded towpaths, farmland, and busi Num Pages: 238 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 490.
The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of Forestport was struggling just to survive. Then the canal levees started breaking, and the boom times returned. The Forestport saloons flourished, the town's gamblers rollicked, and the politically connected canal contractors were flush once more. It was all very convenient until Governor Theodore Roosevelt's administration grew suspicious and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency began investigating. They found what a lawman called one of the most gigantic conspiracies ever hatched in New York. In The Forestport ... Read more
The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of Forestport was struggling just to survive. Then the canal levees started breaking, and the boom times returned. The Forestport saloons flourished, the town's gamblers rollicked, and the politically connected canal contractors were flush once more. It was all very convenient until Governor Theodore Roosevelt's administration grew suspicious and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency began investigating. They found what a lawman called one of the most gigantic conspiracies ever hatched in New York. In The Forestport ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815607724
SKU
V9780815607724
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Reviews for The Forestport Breaks. A Nineteenth Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal.
Carefully researched and nimbly written, Doyle's account of a 19th-century conspiracy to sabotage part of the Erie Canal system is a delight to read. . . . History and mystery fans should enjoy this well told tale. For lovers of real-life historical mysteries, it does not get much better.