Historic Highways of America: Volume 1: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals - Softcover

Hulbert, Archer Butler

 
9783849674847: Historic Highways of America: Volume 1: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals

Synopsis

A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. Indian Thoroughfares. Washington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War. Braddock's Road. The Old Glade (Forbes's) Road. Boone's Wilderness Road. Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent. Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin. Waterways of Westward Expansion. The Cumberland Road. Pioneer Roads of America (two volumes). The Great American Canals (two volumes). The Future of Road-Making in America. The first monograph of the series will consider the routes of the mound-building Indians and the trails of the large game animals, particularly the buffalo, as having set the course of landward travel in America on the watersheds of the interior of the continent.

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Archer Butler Hulbert was a professor of history at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, and author of"

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