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by Samuel Hopkins Adams (Author), Frank Bergmann (Foreword by)
Samuel Hopkins Adams presents a fictional portrait of an Erie Canal town in the early nineteenth century. This piece of classic literature relates the tale ofa young doctor setting up a practice in the canal town.
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'{An} elaborate, colorful, and affectionate portrait of a canal town in its growing pains. Obviously Mr. Adams has not only gone back to the sources but has lived with them for a long time before writing his account of a young doctor setting up his practice.' -The Atlantic