The Birth of the Erie Canal

195 pp. Maps on endpapers, section of black & white plates from historical engravings. A history of the building of the Erie Canal. CONTENTS: Return of the Wilderness; Jonas Platt; The Lock Navigation Company; Fall of the Federalists; DeWitt Clinton; The Interior Route; Challenge of the Unconquered; The Canal Commissioners' Tour of Investigation; The Washington Side Step; The Decline and Fall of DeWitt Clinton; The Canal Law; Selected Reading List.