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Besides many a tale of Western New York countryside, this book offers fascinating chapters about the North Country, the Niagara Frontier and the Southern Tier.
Through its pages walk colorful figures of the Upstate past; the fair lady of North Country grandee won by the toss of a coin; the onetime King of Spain who held court in the backwoods; the fabulous Elbert Hubbard, "The Fra" of East Aurora; the missionary martyrs and a silver-tongued infidel, natives of the land of Finger Lakes, who made history in their time; the movie stars who once made Ithaca, far above Cayuga's waters, a little Hollywood; the daredevils who through the years in barrels and boats and on tight ropes have sought to conquer the "thunder water" of Niagara.
The past comes to life again in stories of historic mansions, covered bridges, Indian council fires and the oldtime glory of Charlotte, Rochester's lake port that once was "The Coney Island of the West."
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