Brother of the Wind: A Story of the Niagara Frontier

Year of Publication
1960
Publication Type
Novel
Number of Pages or Episodes
253 p.
Language
English
Contributors Author: Jerry Wolfert
Publisher
The John Day Company
City
New York
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Abstract
The novel begins on Western Pennsylvania's Allegheny River during the keelboat age. Oliver, a 12-year-old orphan, is “a pygmy among giants” and works the keelboat Blackthorne just above Pittsburgh. When the first steamboat enters the Allegheny River, boatmen lose their jobs and Oliver heads north to Upstate New York for the building of the Erie Canal.
Author Biography
Jerry Wolfert (1917-1966) was chief copy editor in New York City for Business Week.
Time
1815-20
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