The Erie Canal was dying. Adirondack sawmills were falling silent.
And in the final years of the nineteenth century, the upstate New
York town of Forestport was struggling just to survive. Then the
canal levees started breaking, and the boom times returned. The
Forestport saloons flourished, the town's gamblers rollicked, and
the politically connected canal contractors were flush once more.
It was all very convenient until Governor Theodore Roosevelt's
administration grew suspicious and the Pinkerton National Detective
Agency began investigating. They found what a lawman called one of
the most gigantic conspiracies ever hatched in New York. In The
Forestport Breaks, Michael Doyle illuminates a fresh and
fascinating chapter in the colorful history of the Erie Canal. This
is the canal's shadowy side, a world of political rot and plotting
men, and it extended well beyond one rough and tumble town. The
Forestport breaks marked the only time New York officials charged
men with conspiring to destroy canal property, but they were also
illustrative of the widespread rascality surrounding the canal. For
Doyle, there is a story with a personal dimension behind the drama
of the canal's historical events. As he uncovered the rise and fall
of Forestport, he was also discovering that the trail of
culpability led to members in his own family tree.
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