Category: History - American
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We have considered in this series of monographs the opening of a number of Historic Roads and the part they played in the development of the most important phases of early Ameri...
4. CHAPTER IIThe following chapter is from Francis Baily's volume, _A Journal of a Tour in Unsettled Parts of North America_. It is an account of a journey in 1796 from Philadelphia to Pitts...
6. CHAPTER IVThe following interesting and vivid picture of early travel in Kentucky is taken from Judge James Hall's _Legends of the West_ (Philadelphia, 1832); though largely a work of fic...
5. CHAPTER IIIIn the study of the Ohio River as a highway of immigration and commerce it was emphasized that in earliest pioneer days the ascent of the river was a serious and difficult probl...
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