The Erie Canal

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Ohio and Erie Canal / Boone Triplett. by Triplett, Boone

“…Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio)…”
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The Ohio & Erie Canal : a Glossary of Terms, Revised and Expanded. by Woods, Terry K.

“…Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio) Terminology.…”
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Bond of Union : Building the Erie Canal and the American Empire. by Koeppel, Gerard T., 1957-

“…Erie Canal (N.Y.) History.…”
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Untold. explained / produced by Makematic with DoGoodery.

“…Building the Erie Canal : explained…”
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Ohio's Grand Canal : a Brief History of the Ohio & Erie Canal. by Woods, Terry K.

Table of Contents: “…Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 Planning and Construction; 2 Early Operation; 3 Administration and Finance; 4 Operation of the Lease; 5 The Flood; 6 Effects of the Canal; Appendix: Rebuild Contracts of the Ohio & Erie Canal; Notes; Recommended Reading; Index…”
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Bond of Union : building the Erie Canal and the American empire / Gerard Koeppel. by Koeppel, Gerard T., 1957-

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Boom and Bust : America's Journey on the Erie Canal / American Focus, Inc..

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The artificial river : the Erie Canal and the paradox of progress, 1817-1862 / Carol Sheriff. by Sheriff, Carol

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Wedding of the waters : the Erie Canal and the making of a great nation / Peter L. Bernstein. by Bernstein, Peter L.

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Erie water west : a history of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854 / Ronald E. Shaw. by Shaw, Ronald E.

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Canal fever : the Ohio & Erie Canal, from waterway to canalway / edited by Lynn Metzger and Peg Bobel, with illustrations by Chuck Ayers.

Table of Contents: “…Preface and acknowledgments / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- Part 1: Historic Ohio & Erie Canal -- 1: History of the Ohio & Erie Canal / Sam Tamburro -- Side bar: Where the canal meets the road / Glenn Harper -- 2: Building the canals: the engineers / Jack Gieck -- 3: Mucking through: common labor on the Ohio & Erie Canal / George Knepper -- 4: Natural history, natural resources, and the Ohio & Erie Canal / Joseph T Hannibal -- 5: Traveler's tale: along the Ohio & Erie Canal in 1834: Maximilian, Prince of Wied: an annotated translation / Joseph T Hannibal, Sabina F Thomas, and Michael G Noll -- 6: Hands of the diligent / Kathleen Fernandez -- 7: Voices on the canal / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- 8: East versus west: the industrial valley / Richard Sicha -- Part 2: Long Twilight -- 9: Railroad fever and canals in Ohio / H Roger Grant -- Sidebar: Cuyahoga Valley Scenic railroad-today / Robert W Bobel -- 10: William Bennett's Navarre, the canal town / Sam Tamburro -- 11: Crossing the cultural fault line: the historic landscape of the Ohio & Erie Canal / Glenn Harper -- 12: Rising water and waning support: the Ohio & Erie Canal's final years / Peg Bobel -- Sidebar: Canal maintenance in the twenty-first century / Peg Bobel -- 13: Ditch and the path in the backyard / Peg Bobel and Lynn Metzger -- Sidebar: What is in a name? …”
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Enterprising waters : the history and art of New York's Erie Canal /... by Utter, Brad L., Hopkins-Benton, Ashley, Quinn, Karen E.

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Enterprising waters: New York's Erie Canal -- Introduction: Art of the Erie Canal -- Part I. …”
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The Birth of Empire : DeWitt Clinton and the American Experience, 1769-1828. by Cornog, Evan

“…Erie Canal (N.Y.) History.…”
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The Ohio canals / Frank Wilcox ; selected and edited by William A. McGill ; with a new introduction by Lynn Metzger and Peg Bobel. by Wilcox, Frank N. (Frank Nelson), 1887-1964

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Introduction to the second edition -- Introduction to the first edition -- Canal excavation -- Locks and lock building -- About canal boats -- The Ohio and Erie Canal -- From Cleveland to Portsmouth -- The Miami-Erie Wabash Canal -- The Sandy-Beaver Canal -- The Pennsylvania Cross-Cut -- The passing of the canals.…”
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Ohio Canals. by Wilcox, Frank

Table of Contents: “…About Canal Boats ""; ""4. The Ohio and Erie Canal ""; ""5. From Cleveland to Portsmouth ""…”
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Wall Street & The Growth of America.

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Wake Up America.

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A place in history : Albany in the age of revolution, 1775-1825 / Warren Roberts. by Roberts, Warren, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…-- Philip Schuyler's Hudson River visitors, 1776-83 -- Mme. de La Tour du Pin's two-year stay in Albany, 1794-96 -- Albany and the Erie Canal -- Conclusion: Albany, past and present : observations and images (with some musings thrown in) -- Appendix A: Thomas Jefferson and Angelica Schuyler Church in Paris -- Appendix B: The responses of two Americans to the French Revolution : Gouverneur Morris and Thomas Jefferson -- Appendix C: Talleyrand and the XYZ Affair -- Appendix D: David's depiction of Talleyrand in the coronation of Napoleon and Joséphine.…”
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