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100 1  Strand, Ginger Gail. 
245 10 Inventing Niagara :|bbeauty, power, and lies|h[Hoopla 
       electronic resource] /|cGinger Strand. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bTantor Audio,|c2008. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 1  Read by Karen White. 
520    Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the 
       falls aren't very natural anymore. In fact, they are a 
       study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshaped, 
       brink stabilized, and landscape redesigned, the falls are 
       more a monument to man's meddling than to nature's 
       strength. Held up as an example of something real, they 
       are hemmed in with fakery-waxworks, haunted houses, IMAX 
       films, and ersatz Indian tales. A symbol of American 
       manifest destiny, they are shared politely with Canada. 
       Emblematic of nature's power, they are completely human-
       controlled. An archetype of natural beauty, the falls 
       belie an ugly environmental legacy still bubbling up from 
       below. On every level, Niagara Falls is a monument to how 
       America falsifies nature, reshaping its contours and 
       redirecting its force while claiming to submit to its 
       will.Combining history, reportage, and personal narrative,
       Inventing Niagara traces Niagara's journey from sublime 
       icon to engineering marvel to camp spectacle. Along the 
       way, Ginger Strand uncovers the hidden history of 
       America's waterfall: the Mohawk chief who wrested the 
       falls from his adopted tribe, the revered town father who 
       secretly assisted slave catchers, the wartime workers who 
       unknowingly helped build the atomic bomb, and the building
       contractor who bought and sold a pharaoh. With an uncanny 
       ability to zero in on the buried truth, Strand introduces 
       us to underwater dams, freaks of nature, mythical maidens,
       and 280,000 radioactive mice buried at Niagara.From 
       LaSalle to Lincoln to Los Alamos, Mohawks to Marilyn, 
       Niagara's story is America's story, a tale of dreams 
       founded on the mastery of nature. At a time of increasing 
       environmental crisis, Inventing Niagara shows us how 
       understanding the cultural history of nature might help us
       to rethink our place in it today. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Strand, Ginger Gail|xTravel|zNiagara Falls (N. Y. and 
       Ont.) 
650  0 Tourism|zNiagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)|xHistory. 
650  0 Audiobooks. 
651  0 Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)|xSocial life and customs. 
651  0 Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)|xHistory. 
651  0 Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)|xDescription and travel. 
700 1  White, Karen|q(Karen Elizabeth)|4nrt 
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