The developer's frontier
Land use, rural
New york (n.y.), description and travel
Rural Land use
Historical geography
Landscape architecture
Cities and towns
Frontier and pioneer life
History
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 …
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