Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
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Category : Portages
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849674908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. Indian Thoroughfares. Washington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War. Braddock's Road. The Old Glade (Forbes's) Road. Boone's Wilderness Road. Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent. Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin. Waterways of Westward Expansion. The Cumberland Road. Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes). The Great American Canals (two volumes). The Future of Road-Making in America. 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 " two centuries 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. While studying them, one seems to rise on heights of ground like those these pathways spanned — and from that altitude, gazing backward, to get a better perspective of the military and social movements which made these little roads historic.

Author: Elbert Jay Benton
Publisher:
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Category : Currency question
Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Author: John H. Finley
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311

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John Finley's book, "The French in the Heart of America" is a book on the historical place that French born individuals have played in the founding of the American nation. Finley looks at the roles they played particularly in the field of geographical exploration citing explorers such as Jacques Cartier, Père James Marquette, Samuel de Champlain and René-Robert Sieur de La Salle among others. It is a great read for those interested in the pre and post-independence geographical exploration of North America

Author: Archer Butler Hulbert
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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"Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals" by Archer Butler Hulbert Hulbert earned his fame as a historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history. He believed, through writing this book, that every road has a story and the burden of every story is a need. The greater the need, the better the road and the longer and more important the story. He goes back into American history and explains how the Native Americans were the very first road builders, even at a time without pavement or formal road laying.

Author: Royal Society of Canada
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1238

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Author: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1194

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Author: Royal Society of Canada
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Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 1196

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Author:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 952

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Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.