You Should Have Seen Us Howling: When Buffalo Ruled the Inland Seas

Once a teeming Great Lakes port famed for its ships and reviled for its dockside brothels and bars, Buffalo was the brawling crossroads of America, a maritime city where the Erie Canal ended and the open water began, with a rich legacy of gales, songs, yarns, shipwrecks and lives saved and lost on the lakes' treacherous, storm-tossed waters.You Should Have Seen Us Howlingcovers all of that, from Buffalo's founding and its years as a big, infamous harbor town through its decline after 1960 to today, as it celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Erie Canal.

Format: Paperback | Pages: 120 | Publication Date: 2025-08-21