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• catalog abstract ""The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of Forestport was struggling just to survive. Then the canal levees started breaking, and the boom times returned. The Forestport saloons flourished, the town's gamblers rollicked, and the politically connected canal contractors were flush once more." "It was all very convenient, until Governor Theodore Roosevelt's administration grew suspicious and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency began investigating. They found what a lawman called one of the most gigantic conspiracies ever hatched in New York." "In The Forestport Breaks, Michael Doyle illuminates a fresh and fascinating chapter in the colorful history of the Erie Canal. This is the shadowy side of its history, the world of political rot and plotting men, and it extended well beyond one rough and tumble town. This scandal marked the only time New York officials charged men with conspiring to destroy canal property, but it was also illustrative of the widespread rascality encrusting the canal." "And then there is the family intrigue. As Doyle uncovered the rise and fall of Forestport, he was also discovering that the trail of culpability led to members of his own family tree."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b13188383.
• catalog coverage "Black River Canal (N.Y.)".
• catalog coverage "Forestport (N.Y.) History.".
• catalog created "2004.".
• catalog date "2004".
• catalog date "2004.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
• catalog description ""In The Forestport Breaks, Michael Doyle illuminates a fresh and fascinating chapter in the colorful history of the Erie Canal. This is the shadowy side of its history, the world of political rot and plotting men, and it extended well beyond one rough and tumble town. This scandal marked the only time New York officials charged men with conspiring to destroy canal property, but it was also illustrative of the widespread rascality encrusting the canal." "And then there is the family intrigue. As Doyle uncovered the rise and fall of Forestport, he was also discovering that the trail of culpability led to members of his own family tree."--Jacket.".
• catalog description ""The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent. And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New York town of Forestport was struggling just to survive. Then the canal levees started breaking, and the boom times returned. The Forestport saloons flourished, the town's gamblers rollicked, and the politically connected canal contractors were flush once more." "It was all very convenient, until Governor Theodore Roosevelt's administration grew suspicious and the Pinkerton National Detective Agency began investigating. They found what a lawman called one of the most gigantic conspiracies ever hatched in New York."".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-228) and index.".
• catalog extent "xv, 238 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Forestport breaks.".
• catalog identifier "0815607725 (cl. : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Forestport breaks.".
• catalog issued "2004".
• catalog issued "2004.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press,".
• catalog relation "Forestport breaks.".
• catalog spatial "Black River Canal (N.Y.)".
• catalog spatial "Forestport (N.Y.) History.".
• catalog spatial "New York (State) Forestport".
• catalog subject "974.7/62 22".
• catalog subject "Conspiracies New York (State) Forestport History.".
• catalog subject "F129.F686 D69 2004".
• catalog title "The Forestport breaks : a nineteenth-century conspiracy along the Black River Canal / Michael Doyle.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".