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 still larger, being 455,236 pounds. In those later days of its active history the waterway was exerting an important influence in the settlement of the region through which it extended. The concluding years of the Wabash and Erie Canal were characterized by active… … 246. — A later variety of car on the New York and Harlem. The captain stood on a very small platform at the rear. Horses were employed on the road for several years. enterprise in some parts of Indiana, and its usefulness was several times destroyed as a result of mob violence. In May of 1854 a mob…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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