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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Other Books by This Author
Contents
Maps
Chapter One
1. Ice and water
2. A prodigious cadence
3. “The most awful scene”
Chapter Two
1. Augustus Porter’s sylvan bower
2. William Forsyth’s folly
3. The jumper and the hermit
Chapter Three
1. “That Enchanted Ground”
2. The father of geology
3. Spanning the gorge
4. John Roebling’s bridge
Chapter Four
1. Miss Bird “does” Niagara
2. Frankenstein’s monster
3. Mr. Church’s masterpiece
Chapter Five
1. The Prince of Manila
2. Farini the Great
3. Farini the flirt
4. The legacy of Niagara
5. Into the maelstrom
Chapter Six
1. The cave of the forty thieves
2. Private greed
3. A ramble on Goat Island
4. Saving Niagara from itself
5. Casimir Gzowski to the rescue
Chapter Seven
1. Harnessing the waters
2. Tesla
3. The golden age
4. Utopian dreams
Chapter Eight
1. Arthur Midleigh’s folly
2. The ice bridge
3. Annie
4. Fame and fortune or instant death
5. Aftermath
Chapter Nine
1. The Canadian connection
2. The people’s power
3. The Second Battle of Niagara
4. The red-headed hero
5. The soaring ambitions of Adam Beck
Chapter Ten
1. The riverman’s return
2. The Richest Man in Canada
3. The end of the Honeymoon
4. Young Red’s last ride
Chapter Eleven
1. The witch’s end of fairyland
2. The park man
3. The river takes over
4. The fighting Tuscarora
Chapter Twelve
1. The miracle
2. Blackout
3. Drying up the Falls
Chapter Thirteen
1. Love Canal makes the news
2. The mother instinct
3. The long crusade of Lois Gibbs
4. Taking hostages
Afterword
Photo Inserts
Acknowledgements
Select Bibliography
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