Table of Contents

ONE Ice and water A prodigious cadence "The most awful scene" TWO Augustus Porter's sylvan bower William Forsyth's folly The jumper and the hermit THREE "That Enchanted Ground" The father of geology Spanning the gorge John Roebling's bridge FOUR Miss Bird "does" Niagara Frankenstein's monster Mr Church's masterpiece FIVE The Prince of Manila Farini the Great Farini the flirt The legacy of Niagara Into the maelstrom SIX The cave of the forty thieves Private greed A ramble on Goat Island Saving Niagara from itself Casimir Growski to the rescue SEVEN Harnessing the waters Tesla The golden age Utopian dreams EIGHT Arthur Midleigh's folly The ice bridge Annie Fame and fortune or instant death Aftermath NINE The Canadian connection The people's power The Second Battle of Niagara The red-headed hero The soaring ambitions of Adam Beck TEN The riverman's return The Richest Man in Canada The end of the Honeymoon Young Red's last ride ELEVEN The witch's end of fairyland The park man The river takes over The fighting Tuscarora TWELVE The miracle Blackout Drying up the Falls THIRTEEN Love Canal makes the news The mother instinct The long crusade of Lois Gibbs Taking hostages AFTERWORD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX

Reviews

"Entertaining. . . . Berton brings to life the adventurers and dreamers, visionaries and industrialists, who over centuries
have been drawn to the Falls." -- "Maclean's" "From the Trade Paperback edition."

"Entertaining. . . . Berton brings to life the adventurers and dreamers, visionaries and industrialists, who over centuries
have been drawn to the Falls." -- "Maclean's"

"From the Trade Paperback edition."