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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kelly, Jack, 1949- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, [2016]
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.