Old trails on the Niagara frontier
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Sprache:Englisch
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Verlag:Alpha Editions
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.07.2019
Verlag
Alpha EditionsSeitenzahl
336
Maße (L/B/H)
21,6/14/2 cm
Gewicht
475 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-93-5380-130-4
Where rivers, lakes, and empires met, paths became history. The frontier still speaks here. Old trails on the Niagara frontier gathers Frank H. Severance's sharply observed local history essays on the corridors that linked the Great Lakes frontier to the interior of colonial western New York. Part regional history collection, part guide to place, these pieces trace niagara frontier trails from indigenous travel routes to roads shaped by trade, diplomacy, and conflict. Severance, a leading figure in buffalo ny history and the Buffalo Historical Society, writes with an archivist's care and a storyteller's restraint, making american frontier history tangible without romance or haze. Expect early settlement narratives grounded in names, landmarks, and documentary detail, with frequent crossings into war of 1812 niagara episodes and the shifting borderlands around Niagara, Buffalo, and the river towns. For readers following family lines, it also serves as a genealogy reference book: a rich quarry for local history research, offering context for migrations, landholding, and community beginnings. Read it as a companion on the border, or as a dependable map of memory, showing why these routes mattered to nations, traders, soldiers, and settlers even now. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. Keep it for an armchair journey, consult it for projects, or shelve it among classic regional chronicles that helped define how the Niagara frontier is remembered.
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