Nine historical studies of the country around Buffalo and the Niagara River, dedicated to the city’s schoolchildren in 1899. Severance moves from the French missionaries who first crossed the region to the garrison of Fort Niagara, the ordeal of David Ogden, the travel journals of an early Buffalo merchant, the exile of Robert Marsh, the Underground Railroad routes into Canada, and the poets who wrote about the Falls.
A local historian’s affectionate tour of a frontier where empires, traders and escaping slaves all left their tracks. Download the free EPUB.