. 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 . -■ vi^ ^i^^^ , ^ li^pi^mk,^ ^■^. 47.—A stage wagon such as wa« used in the East from about 17S0
. 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 . -■ vi^ ^i^^^ , ^ li^pi^mk,^ ^■^. 47.—A stage wagon such as wa« used in the East from about 17S0 until 1800It followed the Flying Machine variety of convevance, and was an inter-mediate hnk between the canvas-covered wagon and the later sta<^e-coachSimilar to the colored engraving reproduced as the frontispiece to Volume I. mention of wheeled vehicles of any sort. The Pennsyl-vania ferry acts of 1683, 1690 and 1693 refer to pack-horses, and to hogs, sheep and other farm animals, andfix a rate of two pence a head for carrying over every .sort was o sii.^lar flatboat pulled acrr^tis=tLI;°1,V a°ro^.eor^;:;pellerby slils^ ^^ 178 A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA person, and with a horse, four pence. The New Jerseyferry legislation of 1716 only named toll rates for asingle person or for horse and man. Then came a first inkling of what the future held in)store. Road vehicles appeared and multiplied. Theprimitive two-wheeled cart and heavy, slow movingwagon, in neither of which could rivers be crossed orlong journeys ma
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