Download or read book Low Bridge written by Lionel D. Wyld and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1962-05-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those who built and used the Erie Canal were a bizarre society, proud pioneers on the waterway known in song and story as "the Horse Ocean," "the Roaring Giddap," or "the Raging Erie." Their considerable influence on American life and literature is the basis of this book. Canallers were colorful characters, from the "hoggee" on the towpath to the "shipshape macaroni" with stovepipe hat and badge of service taking command of a packet with the pride of an admiral, even though he was restricted by law to a speed of four miles per hour! Games and diversions were rough-and-tumble, fighting being as natural as breathing to the canallers. Stories about heroes like Sam Patch and Paddy Ryan, or the big fish that could haul a canal boat, or the big pumpkin that drained the canal—these were logical products of this "frontier" atmosphere. So were the songs—carefree, bawdy, or sad, inspired by the canal and sung throughout the land. Photographs and drawings, music and words to folk songs, maps, notes, and index are included in this first paperback edition.
Download or read book Canawlers written by James Rada and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-05 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Civil War, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal was the de facto border between the Union and Confederate states. Canawlers is the story of the Fitzgerald family as they try and make their living on the C&O Canal amid the fighting between the North and South.
Download or read book The Hoosier Packet written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Erie Canal written by Ralph K. Andrist and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2016-02-26 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Erie Canal was a preposterous idea. Even President Thomas Jefferson, usually ahead of his time, believed that it could not be built for at least a century, and yet, the Erie Canal came to be just as its planners had thought it would. For the first time in the history of the United States, a cheap, fast route ran through the Appalachians, the mountains that had so effectively divided the West from the East of early America. With the canal, the country's fertile interior became accessible and its great inland lakes were linked to all the seas of the world. Here, from award-winning historian Ralph K. Andrist, is the canal's dramatic and little-told story.
Download or read book There and Back written by Stewart Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though travelling is lauded as a means of enriching our lives, the emphasis is generally on the destination rather than the journey. Yet, throughout human history, routes have ferried not just people but books, scrolls, and art, in addition to armies, ambassadorial entourages, slaves, brides, and pilgrims. The interaction of people on routes generated surprising innovations. Through myths, memoirs, and songs associated with twelve such great routes across five continents, historian Stewart Gordon shows how they captured the collective imagination and shaped the expectations of generations of would-be travellers.
Download or read book Early American Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Junior Munsey written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lock Ready written by James Rada and published by Legacy Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War split the United States and now it has split the Fitzgerald Family. Although George Fitzgerald has returned from the war, his sister Elizabeth Fitzgerald has chosen to remain in Washington to volunteer as a nurse. The ex-Confederate spy, David Windover, has given up on his dream of being with Alice Fitzgerald and is trying to move on with his life in Cumberland, Md. Alice and her sons continue to haul coal along the 184.5-mile-long C&O Canal. It is dangerous work, though, during war time because the canal runs along the Potomac River and between the North and South. Having had to endured death and loss already, Alice wonders whether remaining on the canal is worth the cost. She wants her family reunited and safe, but she can't reconcile her feelings between David and her dead husband. Her adopted son, Tony, has his own questions that he is trying to answer. He wants to know who he is and if his birth mother ever loved him. As he tries to find out more about his birth mother and father, he stumbles onto a plan by Confederate sympathizers to sabotage the canal and burn dozens of canal boats. He enlists David's help to try and disrupt the plot before it endangers his new family, but first they will have find out who is behind the plot.
Download or read book Body Boots and Britches written by Harold W. Thompson and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1979-11-01 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb blend of good story-telling and sound scholarship this book provides a fascinating record of what “country New Yorkers” have had to say and sing about themselves as they made their way through three centuries. You'll find stories and songs about pioneers,” Injun fighters,” canallers, outlaws, “uncanny critters,” lumberjacks, farmers lovers, murderers, and tricksters. You’ll even be reminded that piracy and whaling are part of New York’s many-faceted tradition. One chapter examines the origins of New York’s strange place-names. Another is devoted to an engrossing account of New York’s proverbs and folk wisdom.
Download or read book A Shocking Unnatural Incident written by Georgia Ann Mullen and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tess, Beany and Lucy live near the same sleepy canal in Seneca Falls but couldn't be more different. Tomboy Tess is the daughter of a drunken handyman, Beany the timid daughter of a runaway slave, and Lucy the ambitious daughter of a wealthy abolitionis. It's no surprise their goals and personalities clash. All three, however, are enamored of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her First Woman's Rights convention, but it's not until Tess rescues Stanton and Amelia Bloomer from town bullies and is rewarded with a job printing Bloomer's temperance and women's rights newspaper that they become friends. When Tess's father delivers Beany's mother to slave catchers, the girls fight to save her. A bloody battle on the towpath leaves two of them broken in body and spirit, adrift on the Rie Canal. Adventurous Tess finally gets her wish: she's leaving home. But at what price? And how will she survive? -- From back cover.
Download or read book Canawlers written by Harold W. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wedding of the Waters The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation written by Peter L. Bernstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal, is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Best-selling author Peter Bernstein presents the story of the canal's construction against the larger tableau of America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Examining the social, political, and economic ramifications of this mammoth project, Bernstein demonstrates how the canal's creation helped prevent the dismemberment of the American empire and knit the sinews of the American industrial revolution. Featuring a rich cast of characters, including not only political visionaries like Washington, Jefferson, van Buren, and the architect's most powerful champion, Governor DeWitt Clinton, but also a huge platoon of Irish diggers as well as the canal's first travelers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history.
Download or read book Starter Home written by Peter Svenson and published by Algora Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New York Folklore Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wixumlee Is My Salvation written by Georgia Ann Mullen and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wixumlee Is My Salvation is the second book in Georgia Ann Mullen's Canal Tales Series. After a brutal fight with slave catchers, Tess, her brother Cooper, and Beany travel the Erie Canal to its end in Buffalo, New York. When a fearsome woman named Wixumlee kidnaps Beany, Tess and her friend Lucy become entangled in the daring slave rescues of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad. Tess is not the bold young woman she was a month ago. Pushed by the formidable Wixumlee, she struggles and fails as a reluctant Railroad conductor. Tess ranks at the bottom of Wixumlee's gang of abolitionists in terms of both skill and acceptance. The loyal Larkin, a pistol-packing gypsy named Mariana, and the heavily tattooed Quin offer more insults than encouragement. Only young Talbot and his one-eyed mama Savannah are sympathetic to Tess' many mistakes. Tess' anxiety swells when no one but she believes the puzzling Nicky Pappo is a slave catcher. Turned cowardly by bloodshed on the towpath, Tess toils against Wixumlee's dubious influence over Beany to win back her friend and regain her own lost courage. Georgia Ann Mullen is the author of A Shocking & Unnatural Incident, historical fiction about the First Woman's Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Tess, Beany and Lucy's lives reflect the issues leading up to that convention. Read how temperance, abolition and female sovereignty influence their lives at www.georgiamullen.com. Georgia has been a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor. Living in western New York and writing articles about the Erie Canal and local history sparked ideas for her Canal Tales Series. She is writing the third book, Beau Maas at Stop 99, at home in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Download or read book The Lady and the Giant written by Clarence Budington Kelland and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
