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Author: John Hrastar Publisher: 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.
Author: John Hrastar Publisher: 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.
Author: Joseph P. Stoltman Publisher: SAGE ISBN: 141297464X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 911
Book Description
This is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.
Author: Ron Brown Publisher: Dundurn ISBN: 1459733584 Category : Transportation Languages : en Pages : 161
Book Description
Explore western Canada’s rich railway history, travelling from the grand railway hotels and rustic stations to the creative engineering that created spiral bridges and soaring trestles. Relive this time through a trip on one of the many steam trains, visit a railway museum, or walk the trails where trains used to rumble.
Author: Dale Bick Carlson Publisher: Bick Publishing House ISBN: 9781884158308 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
For ages 12+. Teenagers sent to international summer camp in Tibet have disappeared. Of two brothers, Peter and Michael, it is Michael who feels the deep mystical attraction of the high Himalayan mountains, the deserted, secret lamasery. Peter is sceptical, but Michael founds a secret order to perfect disciplines of mind and body to enable teens to change the world, even improve human nature itself. Desperate parents launch an expedition to find their missing children.
Author: John Hrastar
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