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Stone, the official chronicler of the project, who wrote proudly and justifiably in 1825 at the time of the wedding of the wate... Read More
Excellent work, enjoyable, readable with the author fleshing out the players making them multidimensional and alive once more!
There are so many interesting people associated with the canal that it can be easy to get lost in the story.
Price
Suddenly goods of all kinds could move at a speed and cost efficiency previously unimaginable.
Shipping
The economic influence was similar to the later introduction of the railroads and then intermodal shipping.
Competitiveness
Also a great replacment book for when your dog chews up the original from the library.
For over half a century, before the railroads eclipsed it, the erie canal generated $121 million in toll revenue, more than qua... Read More
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- This product had a total of 125 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 27 2022.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The tortuous struggle to get support for the canal was well known to me but i had no idea that a canal following the general route of the erie canal had been proposed before the turn of the 17th century
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But there is no map of upstate new york showing the route of the canal and some of the alternative routes that were considered
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This did not matter much to me as a longtime resident of upstate ny since i knew exactly where the various landmarks mentioned by the author are located but it would be a real problem for a reader who is not a local resident
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I recommend that anyone buying this book also buy or otherwise acquire a map of new york state
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I can only assume that the paperback has no map or the reviewers failed to find it in the beginning
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
People interested in local color or something that reads like a novel will be disappointed i suppose
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There is a lot of context about canal building in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries so the actual construction of the erie canal comes toward the end of the book
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But men like washington and clinton showed how a young nation could replace its selfimage as a discrete coastal northsouth outpost to an eastwest link between europe and the pacific ocean
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