# Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent

Author: Hulbert, Archer Butler, 1873-1933

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41179

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Portage+Paths%3A+The+Keys+of+the+Continent+Hulbert&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The little portage pathways which connected the heads of our rivers and lakes or offered the _voyageur_ a thoroughfare around the cataracts and rapids of our rivers were, as the subtitle of this volume suggests, the "Keys of the Continent" a century or so ago. The forts, chapels, trading stations, treaty houses, council fires, boundary stones, camp grounds, and villages located at these strategic points all prove this. The study of these routes brings one at once face to face with old-time problems from a point of view almost never otherwise gained. The newness and value of reviewing historic movements from the standpoint of highways is strikingly emphasized in the case of portage paths....

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portage-paths-the-keys-of-the-continent-41179/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portage-paths-the-keys-of-the-continent-41179/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portage-paths-the-keys-of-the-continent-41179/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portage-paths-the-keys-of-the-continent-41179/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portage-paths-the-keys-of-the-continent-41179/chapters/8/index.md)
- [PART II: A CATALOGUE OF AMERICAN PORTAGES](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portage-paths-the-keys-of-the-continent-41179/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portage-paths-the-keys-of-the-continent-41179/chapters/6/index.md)
- [VOLUME 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portage-paths-the-keys-of-the-continent-41179/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART I: PORTAGE PATHS](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/portage-paths-the-keys-of-the-continent-41179/chapters/2/index.md)