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

ISBN-13: 9780815607724 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 256 str.

Michael Doyle

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Doyle begins with a family mystery (the precise location of a grave) and ends with a reconstruction of what one New York lawman called the most damnable conspiracy ever hatched in the state. It concerned the struggling upstate logging town of Forestport and a series of breaks in the levees on the Erie Canal that flooded towpaths, farmland, and busi