A history of travel in America : showing the development of travel and transportation from the crude methods of the canoe and the dog-sled to the highly organized railway systems of the present, together with a narrative of the human experiences and changing social conditions that accompanied this economic conquest of the continent (1915)
A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA border existence but a lifetime of personal experience as well. So — as a race — they had no new things to learn. The instinct of the pioneer was in them, and a cool cau¬ tion, surprising alertness, bravery and entire self-reliance … 27. — A backwoodsman and his dog. The cabin dwellers* clothing was all of home fabrication, and made of linsey-woolsey or deer skin. Original sketch by Joshua Shaw. This and the following fifteen illustrations, to No. 42 inclusive, constitute a series showing conditions of pioneer life and travel…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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