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Contains captioned, archival postcards and photographs that chronicle the history of the Genesee River, New York, and the towns along the river.

"In this distinguished new addition to the Rivers of America series, Henry Clune traces the dramatic and colorful history of the Genesee, the 'Little River of the Senecas,' which cuts through New York State from the Pennsylvania line to Lake Ontario near Rochester.

A nineteenth century American village is described in text and photographs.

Presents stories of the people and events of the Genesee River Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The experiences, based on her own account, of Mary Jemison who was captured by a Shawnee war party when she was twelve and subsequently rescued and adopted by the Seneca with whom she chose to remain the rest of her long life.