. A history of travel in America, being an outline of the development in modes of travel from archaic vehicles of colonial times to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad: the influence of the Indians on the free movement and territorial unity of the white race: the part played by travel methods in the economic conquest of the continent: and those related human experiences, changing social conditions and governmental attitudes which accompanied the growth of a national travel system . written document. Disease, the In-dians and social isolation proved fatal to the venture sobrav
. A history of travel in America, being an outline of the development in modes of travel from archaic vehicles of colonial times to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad: the influence of the Indians on the free movement and territorial unity of the white race: the part played by travel methods in the economic conquest of the continent: and those related human experiences, changing social conditions and governmental attitudes which accompanied the growth of a national travel system . written document. Disease, the In-dians and social isolation proved fatal to the venture sobravely yet foolishly begun.^ But twenty of the originalparty remained in the settlement in 1792, and of thosetwenty only one is credited by tradition with a naturaldeath. About three hundred Kentucky boats are believed tohave passed down the Ohio during the year of 1780, and 1 Clannish migrations, limited to one party however large, have not generally beensuccessful in any period or country, and hav^ not h-^d a lasting influence on the occupiedterritory. .Ml permanently important migrations have originated in a widely distributedpublic interest prior to the movement itself, and the first travellers in such cases with them a confidence or certainty that others were to follow. Thr-lt feeling ofsupport has often been more valuable than mere numbers in sustaining pioneers m anew country. = Tliosc who made the trip before 1788 were bound for Kentucky. 289 A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA. MOUTH OF RtD RIVER. MUNDUNG DES RED RIVER 82.—An Orleans or Mississippi boat. Constructed on the lines of the coveredOhio boat, but larger and heavier. Used in descending the Mississippi, andoften equipped with a sail. From a drawing by the American artist,Henry Lewis. a small but increasing flow of travel continued westwardon the river thereafter until 1788. Then came the onrushof a whole people; the first national surge of the tide des-tined to continue under many different aspects of m
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