by Jack Kelly
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Epigraphs
List of Illustrations
Map
Prologue
1
Hardship * Bond of Union * A Mighty Baptism * A Perfect Wilderness * Hair-hung * Eternity * Visionary * Navigable * Abduction
2
Groundbreaking * To Feel and Shout * Damned If You Do * Practical * All * The Spirit of God * Clouds of Heaven * Beyond Description
3
Excited * On Fire * Otherwise, I Am Fine * Mania * Magnificent * Ill-Advised Zeal * Gold Bible * Ingenious * Whiskey * Methods * Abyss
4
Translation * Time * Most Imminent Danger * By the Hand of Mormon * A Battlefield * Morgan’s Ghost * Story * Awake * Tell It to the World * Latter Days * All Rochester
5
Wedding * Big Things * Work of God * Sharp Sickle * Zion * Fort Niagara * Salvation * Deep Prejudice * Velocity * Spirit * Extermination
6
Packet * Unutterable Magnitude * Pagans * War * Public Prosperity * Thunderer * The Bones of God
7
The Whole of America * O Blessed Year * As It Is * Strong Meat * Awful Forebodings * O Lord, My God
Epilogue
Today * Everything * Highway * Martyr * Old Mule * Pageant
Source Notes
Sources Cited
Index
More Praise for Heaven’s Ditch
About the Author
Copyright
HEAVEN’S DITCH. Copyright © 2016 by Jack Kelly. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover painting of Erie Canal and Covered Bridge, 1847 (Oil), Oddie, Walter (1808-65) / © Collection of The New-York Historical Society, USA / Bridgeman Images
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Kelly, Jack, 1949– author.
Title: Heaven’s ditch : God, gold, and murder on the Erie Canal / by Jack Kelly.
Description: First edition. | New York : St. Martin’s Press, [2016]
Identifiers: LCCN 2016003174| ISBN 9781137280091 (hardback) | ISBN 9781466878990 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Erie Canal (N.Y.)—History. | New York (State)—History—1775–1865. | BISAC: HISTORY / United States / 19th Century. | HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA). | TRANSPORTATION / Ships & Shipbuilding / History.
Classification: LCC HE396.E6 K45 2016 | DDC 386/.4809747—dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016003174
e-ISBN 9781466878990
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First Edition: July 2016
