The Merrimack (The Rivers of America Series)

306 pp. 8vo. Illustrated by Aaron Kessler, two panel map precedes text. "New England's Merrimack is a river [whose] banks were the first farming and trading communities of central New England; later its water supplied power for industry. Possibly the most important single phase of Merrimack's history was its development as the textile center of America, a development which culminated in the mammoth Amoskeag Mills in Manchester, N.H. In tracing the Merrimack's course from northern New Hampshire to Newburyport, Mass. and its history from the early seventeenth century to the present, Mr. Holden has found a rich cast of characters to enliven his story. This is the country of the intrepid Hannah Dustin, the Indian-scalper; of Daniel Webster and Mary Baker Eddy; of James McNeill Whistler and, today, John P. Marquand."