Quebec, furs brought to,20.Queen of the West(British steamer),182.
Railroads,134et seq.;see alsonames of railroads.Revolutionary War, plans for payment of debt of,2-3.Rhodes, Mayor of Philadelphia,30.Rideau canal system,160.Rivers and harbors, government policy of improvement,12; Chicago convention (1846),169.Roads,44et seq.,83; tolls,59-60;see alsoCumberland Road.Robinson, Moncure,139-140.Roosevelt, Theodore, quoted,176.Rumsey, James,12; general manager of Potomac Company,32; steamboat experiments,101,102,103,106; Virginia grants monopoly to,106; Fulton and,108.Russell, Majors, and Waddell found Overland Stage Company,189.Rutherfordton Trail,19.
Sacramento, stage line to,189.St. Clair(brig),76.St. Joseph (Mo.), stage line from,189.St. Lawrence canal system,160.St. Louis, shipbuilding,180; headquarters for fur trade,186; trade with Santa Fé,187.St. Mary's River Ship Canal,164,167,168.Salt Lake City, stage line to,189.Samson(lake freighter),169.Sandusky, port of entry,74.San Francisco, Overland Trail to,189.San Lorenzo, Treaty of,75.Santa Fé, trade with,187.Santa Fé Trail,191."Sapphire Country,"19,152.Saturday Advertiser, Liverpool, on theDuane,76-77.Schoph, J. D., crosses mountains in chaise,66.Schuylkill-Susquehanna Canal,35.Searight describes freight wagons on Cumberland Road,123-124.Sellers, Captain Isaiah,182.Shreve, Henry, builds double-decked steamboat,79; invents flat-bottomed steamboat,175.Society for Promoting the Improvement of Roads and Inland Navigation,31,34-35,39,54.South, trade with,65; demands for commerce,174.Southern Belle(steamboat),181.Southern Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad,29.Southern Railway,19.Stanton, E. M., has model ofJ. M. White,186.Stephenson, Robert, on Pennsylvania Canal,140.Stevens, E. A., invents twin-screw propeller,104.Sublette, fur trader,186.Sultana(steamboat),181.Superior(steamboat),156,167.Superior, Lake, copper and iron deposits near,164; commerce from,166-167.Susquehanna River, Washington foresees joining to West,8.
Taverns,56-57,82-83.Taylor, Acting-Governor of New York, and Erie Canal,127,128.Tennessee, trails to,19; cotton exports,180.Tennessee Path, Baily on,96.Thackeray, W. M., quoted,135.Thomas, P. E., and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad,149.Thompson, Chief Justice of New York, and Erie Canal,127.Toledo (O.), demand for transportation facilities,164."Toledo War,"164-165,194.Tom Thumb, Peter Cooper's engine,150.Transportation, Conestoga wagons,57-58,86; steamboats,100et seq.; stagecoaches,122; "J. Murphy wagons,"190;see alsoCanals, Ferries, Horses, Railroads, Roads.Tupper, General Benjamin,104.Twain, Mark, cited,181.Tyson, Jonathan,52.
Unaka Mountains,seeAlleghanies.Union Canal,35,139,151;see alsoPennsylvania Canal.Union Pacific Railroad,191,193.Uniontown (Penn.), growth of,26.
Vandalia(lake freighter),168.Vesuvius(steamboat),78.Virginia, Washington's vision of trade routes for,10; Indian trails,18; roads,44-45,49,119; negroes,85; tobacco,85; canals,136,144.Virginia Road (Braddock's Road),51.
Walk-in-the-Water(steamboat),132,156,167,172."Warrior's Path,"19,20.Washington (D. C.), Baily at,84,85-86.Washington, first double-decked steamboat,79,175.Washington, Fort,68.Washington, George, vision of inland navigation,4et seq.,193; doctrine of expansion,6; journey to West,7-9; letter to Harrison,10,53,117,127;Journal,10; and river improvement,31; president of Potomac Company,32; and army roads,50; and crop rotation,85; prophecy regarding millstones,87-88; Rumsey and,100-101,105-106.Watauga, Fort,19.Waters, Dr., of New Madrid, builds schooner,95.Watson, Elkanah, of New York,31,33,36,37,54.Wayne, Anthony,67.Webster, Pelatiah, and settlement of Northwest,3.Weiser, Conrad,26.Welch, Sylvester,139.Welland Canal,12,155,160,168,169.Western Engineer(steamboat),186.Western Inland Lock Navigation Company,31,36-37.Western Maryland Railway,18.Westfield River, Old Bay Path along,16.Westover, stagecoach driver,122-123.Wheeling, western terminus of Cumberland Road,119.White, of Pennsylvania,31,40,43.Wickham, Nathan,49.Wilderness Road,47,50.Winchester (Va.), trail from,18.Wisconsin, development of,164.Woodworth, Samuel,The Hunters of Kentucky,62-63;The Old Oaken Bucket,62.
Yadkin River, trail on,19.Yates, Judge, and Erie Canal,127.Yoder, Jacob,64-65.York Road,52.Yorktown(steamboat),181,182.
Zane, Ebenezer,47,88.Zanesville (O.), grants to Zane near,47.
Historic Highways of America
Archer Hulbert completed a fifteen-part series from 1902-1905 on the historic highways of America, which he distilled into this one volume for theChronicles of America Series.Project Gutenbergoffers thirteen of the fifteen volumes in the historic roads series. We are also missing the sixteenth volume from our collection, which is an index of the other fifteen volumes.
Transcriber's NotesIntroduction:
The Chronicles of America Series has two similar editions of each volume in the series. One version is the Abraham Lincoln edition of the series, a premium version which includes full-page pictures. A textbook edition was also produced, which does not contain the pictures and captions associated with the pictures, but is otherwise the same book. This book was produced to match the textbook edition of the book.
We have retained the original punctuation and spelling in the book, but there are a few exceptions. Obvious errors were corrected--and all of these changes can be found in theDetailed Notes Sectionof these notes. TheDetailed Notes Sectionalso includes issues that have come up during transcription. One common issue is that words are sometimes split into two lines for spacing purposes in the original text. These words are hyphenated in the physical book, but there is a question sometimes as to whether the hyphen should be retained in transcription. The reasons behind some of these decisions are itemized.
OnPage 28, pack-saddles was hyphenated between two lines for spacing. The word was used inside a quote, so prior references may not give us the right transcription. However, it is the best information that we have available. On page 22, packsaddle was not hyphenated and appeared in the middle of a line. A word with the same prefix, pack-horse, was consistently spelled with a hyphen. We transcribed the word without the hyphen, because the evidence suggests that the author intended packsaddles without the hyphen, but pack-horse and pack-horsemen with the hyphen.
OnPage 32, stock-holders was hyphenated between two lines for spacing. On page 41, stockholders was spelled without a hyphen. Also, on page 56, stockholders was spelled without a hyphen. We transcribed the word without the hyphen.
OnPage 57, stage-coach was hyphenated between two lines for spacing. In several other instances, stagecoach was spelled without the hyphen. You will find one instance of stage-coach with a hyphen, on page 135: it is from quoted text. We transcribed the word without the hyphen.
OnPage 86, pack-horse was hyphenated between two lines for spacing. In many other instances, pack-horse was spelled with the hyphen. We transcribed the word with the hyphen.
OnPage 101, iron-shod was hyphenated between two lines for spacing. There was no other use of the word in this book. We transcribed the word without the hyphen.
OnPage 109, stern-wheeler was hyphenated between two lines for spacing. On the same page, stern-wheeler was used again, hyphenated, in the middle of a line. We transcribed the word with the hyphen.
OnPage 210, stage-coach was hyphenated between two lines for spacing. We transcribed the word without the hyphen. See the note in this section underChapter 4for a further explanation.