Category: History - American
PAGE PREFACE 11 I. OUR FIRST NATIONAL ROAD 15 II. BUILDING THE ROAD IN THE WEST 71 III. OPERATION AND CONTROL 91 IV. STAGECOACHES AND FREIGHTERS 119 V. MAILS AND MAIL LINES 142 VI. TAVERNS AND TAVERN LIFE 152 VII. CONCLUSION 174 APPENDIXES 189
PAGE PREFACE 11 I. OUR FIRST NATIONAL ROAD 15 II. BUILDING THE ROAD IN THE WEST 71 III. OPERATION AND CONTROL 91 IV. STAGECOACHES AND FREIGHTERS 119 V. MAILS AND MAIL LINES 142...
2. CHAPTER I_The middle ages had their wars and agonies, but also their intense delights. Their gold was dashed with blood, but ours is sprinkled with dust. Their life was intermingled with...
3. CHAPTER IIThe tales of those who knew the road in the West and those who knew it in the East are much alike. It is probable that there was one important distinction--the passenger traffic...
4. CHAPTER IIIThe Cumberland Road was built by the United States Government under the supervision of the War Department. Of its builders, whose names will ever live in the annals of the Middl...
5. CHAPTER IVThe great work of building and keeping in repair the Cumberland Road, and of operating it, developed a race of men as unknown before its era as afterward. For the real life of t...
6. CHAPTER VThe most important official function of the Cumberland Road was to furnish means of transporting the United States mails. The strongest constitutional argument of its advocates...
7. CHAPTER VISo distinctive was the character of the Cumberland Road that all which pertained to it was highly characteristic. Next to the race of men which grew up beside its swinging stret...
8. CHAPTER VIIIt is impossible to leave the study of the Cumberland Road without gathering up into a single chapter a number of threads which have not been woven into the preceding record. An...