Title The Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950 / edited, with an introduction, by Roger W. Hecht.

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Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003.

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Edition	1st ed.
Description	1 online resource (xii, 169 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-169).
Contents	Introduction : Authoring the Erie -- [Selections from] -- "The Great Western canal" / Philip Freneau -- "Celebration of the grand canal" / Rev. Charles Giles -- Travels in North America / Basil Hall -- Men and manners in America / Thomas Hamilton -- Domestic manners of the Americans / Frances Trollope -- Retrospect of Western travel / Harriet Martineau -- "The Canal boat" / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The poetry of travelling in the United States / Caroline Gilman -- "The canal boat" / Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Moby-Dick / Herman Melville -- "The aged pilot man" / Samuel L. Clemens -- "The raging canal" ; popular song -- Their wedding journey / W.D. Howells -- David Harum / Edward Noyes Wescott -- Erie water / Walter D. Edmonds -- "Canal bride"/ Samuel Hopkins Adams.
System Details	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
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Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Erie Canal (N.Y.) -- Literary collections.
	Erie Canal (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
	Erie Canal Region (N.Y.) -- Literary collections.
	Erie Canal Region (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
	American literature -- New York (State) -- Erie Canal Region.
	American literature.
	New York (State) -- Erie Canal Region.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Literary collections.
	Literature.
	Literature.
Added Author	Hecht, Roger W.
Other Form:	Print version: Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950. 1st ed. Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2003 9780815607618 (DLC) 2002151209 (OCoLC)50755093
ISBN	9780815607618 (electronic book)
	081560761X (electronic book)
	0815607598 (paper ; alkaline paper)
	9780815607595 (paper ; alkaline paper)

Title The Erie Canal reader, 1790-1950 / edited, with an introduction, by Roger W. Hecht.

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