The Forestport Breaks: A Nineteenth-Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal

by Michael Doyle

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815607725
• ISBN13: 9780815607724
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"