The Amazing Impossible Erie Canal

Follow the amazing construction and workings of the Erie Canal, America's first superhighway, in this triumphant nonfiction picture book.

When De Witt Clinton, a young politician, first dreamed of building a canal to connect the Hudson River with the Great Lakes, folks didn't believe such a thing could be done. Clinton wanted to link east coast ports to the frontier, and from the groundbreaking ceremony on the Fourth of July in 1817, Clinton never gave up--even as people called his project "Clinton's Ditch."

Eight long years later, he'd realized his vision at last and constructed the longest uninterrupted canal in history--allowing water travel from the American prairie all the way to Europe!

Author: Cheryl Harness
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 06/01/1999
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 10.16h x 8.22w x 0.10d
ISBN13: 9780689825842
ISBN10: 0689825846
BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Fiction | Historical | United States | General
- Juvenile Fiction | Technology | Inventions
- Juvenile Fiction | Transportation | Boats, Ships, & Underwater Craft