Wedding Of The Waters: The Erie Canal & the Making Of A Great Nation

by Peter Bernstein

$30 · Offered by Mullen Books

New York: W. W. Norton, 2005. Gardcover with illustrated dustjacket. 448 pp. with numerous bw plates. VG+/VG+. Item #100638 This book examines the social ramifications, political squabble and economic risks/returns of the ambitious proposal to cut a waterway between Lake Erie and the Hudson River so that the Atlantic colonies could gain access to the midwest. Buy this book from a living, breathing bookseller!

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