Studies of the Niagara Frontier (Buffalo Historical Society Publications, Volume XV)

437 pp. Blue boards. Deckled edge. CONTENTS: A Familiar Foreword; Early Literature of the Niagara Region; Nineteenth Century Visitors Who Wrote Books; The Niagara Region in Fiction; A Dreamer at Niagara: Chateaubriand in America; The Niagara in Art; John Vanderlyn's Visit to Niagara in 1802; The Niagara in Science; Two Early Visitors; Historical Associations of Buffalo; From Indian Runner to Telephone; Some Thanksgiving Contrasts; On the Niagara Frontier with Harriet Martineau; History that Isn't So; Narratives of Eighteenth Century Visitors to Niagara; Appendix: Officers of the Society - List of Presidents of the Society - Proceedings, Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting - In Memoriam, William Pryor Letchworth - Index; Maps and Diagrams: Diagram of Nineteenth Century Travel - Crevecoeur's Map of the Niagara - Capt. Eny's Sketch of the Falls.