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 the boat belonged to the finder. If a craft worth more than five dollars remained unclaimed for a year it re¬ verted to the Territory as public property.1 The third law provided for the construction of wagon roads on petition of the public, in case the requested roads … 191. — View of a passenger boat going through the deep cut near Lockport, shown in illustration No. 181. The animals and their driver walked on a narrow shelf high up on the wall of masonry at the right. were found to be desirable. The width of such thorough¬ fares was sixty-six feet.2 The law also…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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