Erie Canal: Gateway to the West

Describes the building of the Erie Canal and discusses its historical, political, economic, and sociological impact on the country.

The Story of the Erie Canal
By R. Conrad Stein
An account of the early nineteenth-century construction of the 363-mile canal connecting Albany and Buffalo.
The Erie Canal
By Andrew Santella
Discusses the planning and construction of the Erie Canal which, when completed in 1825, linked the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean.
Gambler in Love
By Patricia Matthews
Gutsy and independent, she holds her own with the roughnecks who work the canal, including the brutal, lascivious Simon Maphis.
The Erie Canal: Linking the Great Lakes
By Tim McNeese
In The Erie Canal: Linking the Great Lakes, read how this manmade waterway that extends from Lake Erie in Buffalo, New York, to the Hudson River in Albany helped shape the future of the Empire State.
The Psychic Highway: How the Erie Canal Changed America
By Michael Keene
The history of the making of the Erie Canal and the visionaries and prophets who established the great social, religious, and political movements of the 19th century.