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The Transmogrification of Faerie Land Into Prairie Land

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 January 2009

Joann Peck Krieg
Joann Peck Krieg
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Joann Peck Krieg teaches in the Department of English, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island, New York 11550.
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In the spring of 1827 the splendidly appointed steamship Albany slid for the first time into the waters of the Hudson River to begin what proved to be an eighteen-year career of commercial travel on that busy waterway. Two years earlier the opening of New York's Erie Canal linking Albany to its western sister city, Buffalo, had enhanced the already flourishing steamboat commerce on the Hudson, for that mighty river then became the principal access to the great westward water route that terminated with the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

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Journal of American Studies , Volume 19 , Issue 2 , August 1985 , pp. 199 - 223
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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