Low Bridge!

by Lionel D. Wyld

Book Overview

Those who built and used the Erie Canal were a bizarre society, proud pioneers on the waterway known in song and story as "the Horse Ocean," "the Roaring Giddap," or "the Raging Erie." Their considerable influence on American life and literature is the basis of this book.

Canallers were colorful characters, from the "hoggee" on the towpath to the "shipshape macaroni" with stovepipe hat and badge of service taking command of a packet with...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815601379
• ISBN13: 9780815601371
• Release Date: May 1962
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.2"