Castorland Journal: An Account of the Exploration and Settlement of New York State by French Émigrés in the Years 1793 to 1797

by Simon Desjardins and Pierre Pharoux

The Castorland Journal is a diary, a travel narrative about early New York, a work of autobiography, and a narrative of a dramatic and complex period in American history. In 1792 Parisian businessmen and speculators established the New York Company, one of the most promising French attempts to speculate for American land following the American Revolution. The company's goal was to purchase and settle fertile land in northwestern New York...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801446260
• ISBN13: 9780801446269
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 442 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher