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The rise and fall of a frontier entrepreneur : Benjamin Rathbun, "Master Builder and Architectect" / Roger Whitman ; edited by Scott Eberle and David A. Gerber.
Van Pelt Library F129.B853 R389 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitman, Roger, 1905-1954.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rathbun, Benjamin, 1790-1873.
- Rathbun, Benjamin.
- Entrepreneurship.
- History.
- Buffalo (N.Y.)--Biography.
- Buffalo (N.Y.).
- Businessmen--New York (State)--Buffalo--Biography.
- Businessmen.
- New York (State)--Buffalo.
- Entrepreneurship--New York (State)--Buffalo--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 241 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press and Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society, 1996.
- Summary:
- This manuscript was rediscovered and given a new title by editors, who revived the book and shaped its historiographical context. The biography and history that emerges details a personal sruggle to build stability, wealth, and rectitude in the shifting moral and economic sands of the Jacksonian era.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815626940
- 0815603371
- OCLC:
- 33405872
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