Includes photographs, excerpts from newspaper articles, statue blueprints, and plenty of factual information in a manner that is kid friendly yet not watered down. [Goodreads]
Chapters: The developer's frontier : background and setting - The township surveys of 1797-1799 - Opening the purchase - Settlement policy on the developer's frontier - Commercial policy on the developer's frontier - Settlers on the developer's frontier - The changing frontier landscape - A legacy on the landscape.
Summary
"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 isolated pioneer of Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier model or the land speculator in search of quick profits that other historians have described, eastern frontier developers fostered long-term settlement and regional growth by means of carefully formulated and comprehensive plans. Wyckoff discusses how these developers designed surveys, village plats, roads, urban centers, and services to attract desirable settlers..." [book jacket]
T.p. consists of reduced facsim. of t.p. of atlas.
"Index to the Illustrated historical atlas of Berks County, Pennsylvania compiled & drawn from personal examinations & surveys by F.A. Davis under the personal supervision of H.L. Kochersperger, published by the Reading Publishing House, Reading, Pennsylvania, 1876"--T.p. verso.
