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Excerpt from History of Buffalo and Erie County: 1914-1919 77th Division Within Thunder of Guns; Seeing Paris with Don Martin; Germany's March Drive Crushes British Defense; Lightless, Heatless, Gasless Days; Buffalo Women Face the Hun; American Allied Exposition and Bazaar; Second Red Cross Drive; "Can They Get to Calais?"; Buffalo Draft Men of 78th Division in France; In Mrs. Vanderbilt's Paris Hospital with Doris Kellogg; Buffalo Marines in Battle of Belleau Wood; House Warming Party for 77th Division at Baccarat; Smashing the Marne Salient; Maj. Donovan at the Battle of the Oureq; First American Army Formed; Girls at Canteens Carry on Through the Hot Summer; Germany's Dead Mark Trail of American Advance; 108th Infantry Enters Front Line at Mt. Kemmel; 77th Division in the Hell Hole Valley of the Vesle; Battle of St. Mihiel - Death of Capt. Platt; Planning the Decisive Battle of the War; General Nolan of Akron - Hero of Apremont; 77th Division Enters Argonne - Col. Jewett Decorated; Maj. Whittlesey's Battalion, 77th Division; Lieut. Wilhelm, Buffalo, in "Lost Battalion"; Lost Battalion's Dead Still Hold the Position; Buffalo Artillerymen Wreck Forges on the Meuse; Breaking the Great Hindenburg Line; Death of Don Martin - A Soldier of the Pen; Sinking of the "Mary Alice"; 77th Division Before Grand Pre; Grand Pre Proves a Buffalo Sepulcher; Twenty Days on the Meuse With the Old 65th; St. Souplet and Across Le Selle; On a Field of Carnage Donovan Fell; Putting the Last One Over With the Old 65th; General Pershing's Story of the Final Days; Buffalo Tank Corps Fighters - Treat 'em Rough; Handling Gas on the Western Front; Honors for Greatest Gains to 77th Division; U. of B. and Canisius Student Army Corps; Battling Above the Clouds; On the Western Front 11 A. M., November 11, 1918; Paris With the Lid Off; Celebrating the Kaiser's Funeral; Lieut. Colonel Pooley Leads Regiment into Germany; Buffalo Boys Stand by as German Fleet Surrenders; When Johnny Came Marching Home; Putting Handcuffs on Disloyalty; Four Minute Men of Buffalo About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Readers from the Big Apple to Buffalo and beyond will find "The Empire State"--which provides equal coverage to "upstate" and "downstate" events and people--satisfying and informative reading. A rich resource, it chronicles the state through centuries of change.

...makes some notable contributions to the popular and scholarly literature about the Niagara region...a welcome addition to the literature of US-Canada cross-border studies. -The Canadian Historical Review...provides a most engaging and eloquently written story, a learned tale of the Niagara region's associated historical triumphs and abiding challenges. The book's geographical and social histories will be of interest not only to residents of the Niagara Frontier but to anyone who has ever been fascinated by the complexly related natural and technological wonders that have helped to make Niagara one of the world's most famous and enduring icons. -ISLEThis in-depth regional study of the Niagara Frontier traces the evolution of landscape and patterns of settlement on both sides of the Niagara River extending from St. Catharines, Ontario, to Lockport, New York. This significant region, astride an international frontier, both connects and separates, unites and divides Canadian and American territories bordering the Niagara River.Like map overlays that build on an underlying base geography, Professor Jackson's chronological approach begins with the qualities of the physical background and their ongoing ramifications up to the present for the use and development of land. He then adds the Native settlements, showing their trails and economic activities, while highlighting the amazing fact that certain Native features remain an intrinsic part of the modern landscape. The next time period reveals that the previous human landscapes, once continuous across the Niagara River, became acutely discontinuous with the creation in 1783 of an unseen but divisive international boundary.Subsequent chapters follow the changes over the course of time as canals, railways, hydroelectric power, and the dominance of the automobile in the present era all transform the environment. Jackson also discusses Niagara Falls as the fulcrum around which the Niagara Frontier has developed and the impact of the tourist industry on the region. This thorough analysis of an important international region will be of great use to students of regional, urban, and historical geography as well as to anyone involved in cross-boundary trade, education, or tourism.John N. Jackson (St. Catharines, Ontario) is professor emeritus of applied geography at Brock University and the author of fourteen previous books on regional geography and history.John Burtniak (St. Catharines), now retired, was the special collections librarian and university archivist at Brock University.Gregory P. Stein (Buffalo, NY) is associate professor of geography and planning at SUNY College at Buffalo.