. 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 . The- ri-4Jl uf U|>|JiT ,r /rr,/>C,;„/C . /Ttf {^//f^^ /-^i^/Z/ft^n/.,/
. 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 . The- ri-4Jl uf U|>|JiT ,r /rr,/>C,;„/C . /Ttf {^//f^^ /-^i^/Z/ft^n/.,//iflrj lif/rfff //f //r- /. A 33.—Internal arrangement and plan of the preceding blockhouse. A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA there arose and spread through the North Carolina andVirginia hills that final influence which was to start theAmerican people on their long westward march. The next two years were spent in a discussion of theimpending exodus and in preparation for it. Thoughmany were anxious to get away frorn the conditions thatburdened them, and eager to find ndw homes in the dis-tant Kentucky region, the contemplated migration couldnot be commenced offhand. The cabin people owned tnelittle log huts and clearings where they lived, and theirproperties could not be altogether sacrificed. Such aradical and unparallelled shift demanded forethought andmuch preliminary arrangement, even on the part of apopulation so fertile in expedient and adaptibility as theywere. At last seven families were ready, including thehouseholds of Daniel and Squire Boone, and after planshad been made by which the remaining five a
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