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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 42

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A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA … 337. — The expedition commanded by Long, and some subsequent exploring and military parties sent up the Missouri by the government, were in part transported on small steamboats. The fire-canoes of the white men made a profound impression on Indians who beheld them for the first time. the West was…

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

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