The Forestport Breaks: A Nineteenth Century Conspiracy Along the Black River Canal

by Michael Doyle (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $22.55

  Doyle begins with a family mystery (the precise location of a grave) and ends with a reconstruction of what one New York lawman called the most damnable conspiracy ever hatched in the state. It concerned the struggling upstate logging town of Forestport and a series of breaks in the levees on the Erie Canal that flooded towpaths, farmland, and busi