By Archer Butler Hulbert
The Ohio River
A Course of Empire
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The Niagara River
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The Niagara River
By
Archer Butler Hulbert
Professor of American History, Marietta College; Author of "The OhioRiver," "Historic Highways of America," "Washington and the West";Editor of "The Crown Collection of American Maps."
With Maps and Illustrations
G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1908
Copyright, 1908
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
The Knickerbocker Press, New York
TO
HENRY CARLTON HULBERT
IN
APPRECIATION OF ENCOURAGEMENT AND FRIENDSHIP
AND AS A TOKEN OF
ESTEEM
Note
In the endeavour to gather into one volume a proper description of thevarious interests that centre in and around the Niagara River the authorof this book felt very sincerely the difficulties of the task beforehim. As the geologic wonder of a continent and the commercial marvel ofthe present century, the Niagara River is one of the most remarkablestreams in the world. In historic interest, too, it takes rank with anyAmerican river. To combine, then, into the pages of a single volume aproper treatment of this subject would be a task that perhaps no onecould accomplish satisfactorily.
Works to which the author is most indebted, especially the historicalwritings of Hon. Peter A. Porter, Severance's Old Trails of the NiagaraFrontier, The Niagara Book, and the writings of the scholar of theold New York frontier, the late O. H. Marshall, and the collections ofthe historical societies along the frontier, are indicated frequently infootnotes and in text. The author's particular indebtedness to Mr.Porter is elsewhere described; he is also in the debt of F. H. Mautz,Henry Guttenstein, Superintendent Edward H. Perry, whose kindness to theauthor was so characteristic of his treatment of all comers to theshrine over which he presides, E. O. Dunlap, and many others mentionedelsewhere. He has appreciated Mr. Howells's characteristicconscientiousness when he wrote concerning Niagara, "I have always hadto take myself in hand, to shake myself up, to look twice, and recur towhat I have heard and read of other people's impressions, before I amoverpowered by it. Otherwise I am simply charmed." The author haslaboured under the difficulty of attempting to remain "overpowered"during a period of several years. That the