Unlike the Mohawk casino, Turning Stone installed slot-type machines without explicit permission from the state.

The agreement grants Park Place the right to develop and manage Mohawk casinos throughout New York.

Despite the apparent support for a Mohawk casino, construction is not necessarily going to begin anytime soon, if ever.

Progress toward a Mohawk casino has accelerated greatly, after moving in fits and starts since the mid-1990's.

Orange County officials estimate that the Mohawk casino will bring 12,000 more car trips through the county each day.

After moving in fits and starts since the mid-1990's, progress toward a Mohawk casino in particular has accelerated.

More recently, several developers bought a number of old resort properties in anticipation, at least in part, that the Mohawk casino would soon open.

The rights to the Mohawk casinos could be worth billions of dollars, investment analysts who follow the gambling industry said.

Then everybody started calling up the race track and calling me and saying what can we do to bring the Mohawk casino here?

The reasons are entwined in a strange tale that says much about power, money and political connections in the long journey of the Mohawk casino.