A first book in American history with European beginnings . d where all had expected failure; he had made a boatthat would go in spite of wind or tide. And more than that. He had found the means for thebetter, quicker water travel which our country many years steamboats were running on the Mis-sissippi and the Missouri Rivers and on the Great great West lay open to emigrants, and Robert Fultonhad furnished a way for them to go there. Railroads came later. The first one was only about289 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY thirteen miles long and ran from Baltimore, Marylan
A first book in American history with European beginnings . d where all had expected failure; he had made a boatthat would go in spite of wind or tide. And more than that. He had found the means for thebetter, quicker water travel which our country many years steamboats were running on the Mis-sissippi and the Missouri Rivers and on the Great great West lay open to emigrants, and Robert Fultonhad furnished a way for them to go there. Railroads came later. The first one was only about289 A FIRST BOOK IN AMERICAN HISTORY thirteen miles long and ran from Baltimore, Maryland, toEllicotts Mills. Over its rails in 1830 went the firstAmerican locomotive. Ten years later there were nearlythree thousand miles of railroad in the different May 10, 1869, the last spike was driven in a railroadthat ran clear across our country from the Atlantic to thePacific. And to-day one can travel the 3,322 miles be-tween New York and San Francisco in the same length oftime it took the early colonists to journey from New Yorkto
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