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 made of linsey-woolsey or some similar heavy woven ma¬ terial. It contained three or four wooden benches with no backs, that extended from side to side of the vehicle. There were, of course, no springs. The first changes marking the transformation of such a wagon into… … 49. — Another coach deviating still further from the archaic form and suggesting the football-shaped vehicle that was soon to appear. earliest form of stage-coach were the flattening of its top and the adoption of side curtains made of leather or wool. The benches and their arrangement for a time…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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