The Developer's Frontier The Making of the Western New York Landscape by William Wyckoff

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Published: Dec 5, 2024
Keywords:
Book review, developers, frontier, western New York, landscape, William Wyckoff, Holland Purchase, geography, Franciska K. Safran

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Franciska K. Safran

Abstract

William Wyckoff s dissertation based, decade-length study of the Holland Purchase presents this western New York tract as a microcosm of the developer’s frontier. The 3.3 million acres, bought by six Dutch Bankers in the Early 1790’s, were opened for company-financed development in 1800.

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The Journal of Erie Studies, Spring 1991, Vol. 20, No. 1
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Book Reviews

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