Author: Archer Butler HulbertPublisher:
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Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Historic Highways of America ...: Portage paths, the keys of the continent. 1903
Author: Archer Butler HulbertPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Roads
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Historic Highways of America
Author: Archer Butler HulbertPublisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849674908
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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. 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.
Classified Catalogue
Author: East St. Louis. Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Collected papers
Author: Calvin GoodrichReview of Historical Publications Relating to Canada
Author: George McKinnon WrongPublisher:
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The 1st volume (1896) includes important publications of 1895.
Indian Names in Michigan
Author: Virgil J. VogelPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472063659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
"Indian Names in Michigan traces the origin of hundreds of place-names given to counties, towns, lakes, rivers, and topographical features of the Great Lakes State. These melodic names that enrich our appreciation for the romantic past of our state record the culture and history of both the American Indian and the white settler. Most of the Indian names borne by Michigan's cities, counties, lakes, and rivers are those of Indian tribes and individuals. Settlers named places not only fro the resident tribes, but also for tribes in the West that they had never seen. Indian Names in Michigan is written for all local history enthusiasts and anyone interested in Indian history and culture"--Back cover.
United States of America, Complainant, ... . Respondent
Author: United States. District Court. Illinois (Northern District).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Déliberations Et Mémoires de la Société Royale Du Canada
Author: Royal Society of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humanities
Languages : en
Pages : 1250
Book Description
Transactions of the Astronomical and Physical Society of Toronto
Author: Royal Astronomical Society of CanadaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1238
Book Description