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Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount how construction of the Erie Canal changed America by vastly improving the movement of goods to settlers in the newly purchased Louisiana Territory.

Although Joshua, a giant frog, causes earthquakes when he hops and topples trees when he croaks, he can also haul a string of barges down the Erie Canal.

Always overshadowed by his competitive older brother, especially in their work as mule drivers on the Erie Canal, fourteen-year-old Howard finally finds the courage to pursue his dreams of becoming an educator after he learns about sign language and teaches it to his deaf friend in nineteenth-century New York State.

"In 1831, Kevin Cullane and his father left their farm in Ireland and boarded a ship bound for America.

Photographs and illustrations provide the history and describe the geographic and engineering challenges of building the Erie Canal.

In the 1800s, the state of New York needed a solution to make the western end of the state near the Great Lakes more accessible.