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 afterward — as a result of recent developments and im¬ pending political troubles in the Southwest — the Federal government induced a number of southwestern tribes1 to place themselves under the protection of the United States. The natives involved, however, retained… … 343. — The bison. Principal source of such food supply as could be obtained during a transcontinental trip. An outpost bull on guard. From a draw¬ ing by the naturalist and artist, Carl Bodmer. Up to the year 1846 the principal international deal¬ ings between the United States and the western…
Transportation -- United States -- History · Frontier and pioneer life -- United States
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