Heaven's ditch : God, gold, and murder on the Erie Canal /
The technological marvel of its age, the Erie Canal grew out of a sudden fit of inspiration. Proponents didn't just dream, they built a 360-mile waterway entirely by hand and largely through wilderness. As excitement crackled down its length, the canal became the scene of the most striking outb...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
St. Martin's Press,
[2016]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Hardship ; Bond of union ; A mighty baptism ; A perfect wilderness ; Hair-hung ; Eternity ; Visionary ; Navigable ; Abduction
- Groundbreaking ; To fell and shout ; Damned if you do ; Practical ; All ; The spirit of God ; Clouds of heaven ; Beyond description
- Excited ; On fire ; Otherwise, I am fine ; Mania ; Magnificent ; Ill-advised zeal ; Gold Bible ; Ingenious ; Whiskey ; Methods ; Abyss
- Translation ; time ; Most imminent danger ; By the hand of Mormon ; A battlefield ; Morgan's ghost ; Story ; Awake ; Tell it to the world ; Latter days ; All Rochester
- Wedding ; Big things ; Work of God ; Sharp sickle ; Zion ; Fort Niagara ; Salvation ; Deep prejudice ; Velocity ; Spirit ; Extermination
- Packet ; Unutterable magnitude ; Pagans ; War ; Public prosperity ; Thunderer ; The bones of God
- The whole of America ; O blessed year ; As it is ; Strong meat ; Awful forebodings ; O Lord, my God
- Today ; Everything ; Highway ; Martyr ; Old mule ; Pageant.