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4.0 out of 5 stars
Canal stories that were gripping depictions of that life, October 23, 1998
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This review is from: Mostly Canallers: Collected Stories (New York Classics) (Paperback)
A real canal buff's opportunity to see canals as they really might have been--gritty, deadly, dirt-hard working conditions--hardly romantic as we'd like to believe. References to real times and real places on the Erie and the Ohio & Erie canals,as well as depicting the lifestyle, make it a good resource.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
folk-sy stories on canal life, January 9, 1998
By A Customer
This review is from: Mostly Canallers: Collected Stories (New York Classics) (Paperback)
folk stories (could be true but probably changed much in the retelling) about life in the heyday of canaling. Gives you a real slice of life of the times. Would recomend to anyone interested in the canal or history on them. (Mostly from the Erie canel but some are from Ohio-Erie, and the rest of area.) It was a good read, very entertaining.
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