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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)

Dunbar, Seymour. 1867-1947 · Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill Co. · leaf 335

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A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA … 71. — Last known handiwork of Fitch, made in Kentucky a short time before his death, in 1798. The model of a steam-engine is of brass and has a truck and flanged wheels to enable it to run on rails. If it operated successfully it was a miniature steam railway locomotive. When in possession of the…

Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States

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