The Eastern Ghost: The Lesson the West Ignored

A century before the West dammed its rivers, New England's mill dams had already wiped the salmon out of the Connecticut and the Merrimack. The lesson was on the books. This episode asks the series' sharpest question — why didn't it carry west? — and weighs three readings fairly: ignorance, indifference, or greed, refusing a tidy verdict.

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