Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Flint's letters from America...v.10, Hulme's journal...Flower's letters from Lexington and the Illinois...and Wood's two years' residence
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Historic Highways of America
Author: Archer Butler HulbertPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849674932
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
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. When this West was in its teens and began suddenly outstripping itself, to the marvel of the world, one of the momentous factors in its progress was the building of a great national road, from the Potomac River to the Mississippi River, by the United States Government—a highway seven hundred miles in length, at a cost of seven millions of treasure. This ribbon of road, winding its way through Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, toward the Mississippi, was one of the most important steps in that movement of national expansion which followed the conquest of the West.
Breaking the Appalachian Barrier
Author: John HrastarPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476670447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
In 1750 the Appalachian Mountains were a formidable barrier between the British colonies in the east and French territory in the west, passable only on foot or horseback. It took more than a century to break the mountain barrier and open the west to settlement. In 1751 a private Virginia company pioneered a road from Maryland to Ohio, challenging the French and Indians for the Ohio country. Several wars stalled the road, which did not start in earnest until after Ohio became a state in 1803. The stone-paved Cumberland Road--from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia--was complete by 1818 and over the next 30 years was traversed by Conestoga wagons and stagecoaches. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad--the first general purpose railroad in the world--started in Baltimore in the 1820s and reached Wheeling by 1852, uniting east and west.
Early Western Travels, 1748-1846
Author: Reuben Gold ThwaitesPublisher:
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Category : Mississippi River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309100887
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
All phases of road developmentâ€"from construction and use by vehicles to maintenanceâ€"affect physical and chemical soil conditions, water flow, and air and water quality, as well as plants and animals. Roads and traffic can alter wildlife habitat, cause vehicle-related mortality, impede animal migration, and disperse nonnative pest species of plants and animals. Integrating environmental considerations into all phases of transportation is an important, evolving process. The increasing awareness of environmental issues has made road development more complex and controversial. Over the past two decades, the Federal Highway Administration and state transportation agencies have increasingly recognized the importance of the effects of transportation on the natural environment. This report provides guidance on ways to reconcile the different goals of road development and environmental conservation. It identifies the ecological effects of roads that can be evaluated in the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of roads and offers several recommendations to help better understand and manage ecological impacts of paved roads.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803
Author: Emma Helen BlairPublisher:
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Category : Demarcation line of Alexander VI.
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Documentary History of Reconstruction: The Union League of America
Author: Walter Lynwood FlemingPublisher:
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Category : Reconstruction
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Narrative of Bering's second expedition, 1733-1743, by an expedition member.
Farnham's Travels in the Great Western Prairies, Etc
Author: Thomas Jefferson FarnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803
Author: James Alexander RobertsonPublisher:
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Category : Philippines
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Documentary History of Reconstruction
Author: Walter Lynwood FlemingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reconstruction
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description