The developer's frontier
the making of the western New York landscape
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Author
Publication
1988 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
59,750 words, Guess
Page Count
239 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2392299M
- ISBN-100300041543
- OCLC Control Number16582045
- OCLC Control Numberdevelopersfronti0000wyck
- Library of Congress Control Number87021760
and 2 more
- LibraryThing4734085
- Goodreads2187116
Classifications
- DDC974.7/03
- LCCF128.44 .W93 1988
Description
This book tells how one nineteenth-century group of developers, the Holland Land Company, promoted and organized a settlement of vast wilderness tracts in western New York state. Wyckoff shows that the experience of eastern developers was distinctive from that of other frontier settlers; unlike the isolated pioneer of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier model or the land speculator in search of quick profits that other historians have described, eastern frontier developers fostered long-term settlement and regional growth by means of carefully formulated and comprehensive plans. - Jacket flap.
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