Category: Travel Writing
PAGE PREFACE 9 I. THE OLD NORTHWESTERN TURNPIKE 13 II. A JOURNEY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA 43 III. A PILGRIM ON BRADDOCK'S ROAD 64 IV. THE GENESEE ROAD 95 V. A TRAVELER ON THE GENESEE ROAD 117 VI. THE CATSKILL TURNPIKE 143 VII. WITH DICKENS ALONG PIONEER ROADS 164
Some of the most interesting descriptions of pioneer traveling are from the racy pages of Charles Dickens's _American Notes_, a volume well known to every reader. No description...
4. CHAPTER IIIA yellow letter, almost in tatters, lies before me written by one Samuel Allen to his father, Mr. Jason Allen of Montville, New London County, Connecticut, from Bellville, Virgi...
2. CHAPTER IWe have treated of three historic highways in this series of monographs which found a way through the Appalachian uplift into the Mississippi Basin--Braddock's, Forbes's, and Bo...
6. CHAPTER VAmong the many records of travelers on the famous Genesee Road, that of Timothy Bigelow, as given in his _Journal of a Tour to Niagara Falls in the Year 1805_,[40] approaches pe...
3. CHAPTER IIThomas Wallcutt of Massachusetts served through the Revolutionary War as hospital steward and received in payment therefor one share in the Ohio Company.[21] He went out to Mari...
7. CHAPTER VISo few writers have paid any attention to the influence of roads in the development of our country that it is a great pleasure to find in Francis Whiting Halsey's _The Old New Y...
5. CHAPTER IVThe military importance of the Mohawk Valley and strategic portage at Rome, New York, was emphasized in our study of Portage Paths.[31] Throughout the French and Indian War and...
1. VOLUME 12PAGE PREFACE 9 I. THE OLD NORTHWESTERN TURNPIKE 13 II. A JOURNEY IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA 43 III. A PILGRIM ON BRADDOCK'S ROAD 64 IV. THE GENESEE ROAD 95 V. A TRAVELER ON THE GENESE...