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 … 330. — A train entering the Chicago railway station of the Illinois Central and Michigan Central roads. Date, 1857. choice of two trains, one leaving at nine o’clock in the morning and the other at three o’clock in the afternoon. Either one would convey him to his destination in six hours. This was…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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