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 lowest obtainable degree by every expedient of engineer¬ ing. Water courses and valleys have therefore been looked upon with favor by the builders of modern man- created routes of travel. Not so with the pioneers who opened the overland way into the West. They shunned… … 42. — A common incident of life in the Kentucky forest during the contest for racial supremacy there. went stubbornly onward.1 They moved like an army of ants, and fixing their eyes toward a distant land marched as directly as the country and their own powers would let them, surmounting each…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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