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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 170

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A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA railway locomotive to be built or to be run on a track in America.1 The practical test of 1820, though made on a small scale, had far-reaching results. From it can be traced a series of subsequent events that by degrees, and with an … 260. — The Volcano. Also a product of the Paterson builders. Date, about 1854. It, in conjunction with the three foregoing machines, shows a steady development toward the modern type of locomotive. ever-increasing pressure, forced the public to give closer heed to the subject and, through popular…

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

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