| Record ID | marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-009.mrc:388495220:2601 |
| Source | marc_columbia |
| Download Link | /show-records/marc_columbia/Columbia-extract-20221130-009.mrc:388495220:2601?format=raw |
LEADER: 02601cam a2200337 a 4500
001 4369397
005 20221102203839.0
008 030923s2004 nyuab b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2003020472
020 $a0815607725 (cl. : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocm53131182
035 $a(NNC)4369397
035 $a4369397
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dC#P$dOrLoB-B
043 $an-us-ny
050 00 $aF129.F686$bD69 2004
082 00 $a974.7/62$222
100 1 $aDoyle, Michael,$d1956-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003055256
245 14 $aThe Forestport breaks :$ba nineteenth-century conspiracy along the Black River Canal /$cMichael Doyle.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aSyracuse, N.Y. :$bSyracuse University Press,$c2004.
300 $axv, 238 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 225-228) and index.
520 1 $a"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 administration grew suspicious and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency began investigating. They found what a lawman called one of the most gigantic conspiracies ever hatched in New York." "In The Forestport Breaks, Michael Doyle illuminates a fresh and fascinating chapter in the colorful history of the Erie Canal. This is the shadowy side of its history, the world of political rot and plotting men, and it extended well beyond one rough and tumble town. This scandal marked the only time New York officials charged men with conspiring to destroy canal property, but it was also illustrative of the widespread rascality encrusting the canal." "And then there is the family intrigue. As Doyle uncovered the rise and fall of Forestport, he was also discovering that the trail of culpability led to members of his own family tree."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aForestport (N.Y.)$xHistory.
650 0 $aConspiracies$zNew York (State)$zForestport$xHistory.
651 0 $aBlack River Canal (N.Y.)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003004086
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip049/2003020472.html
852 00 $boff,glx$hF129.F686$iD69 2004