Historic Highways in America - HOLIDAY SALE

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Historic Highways
of America
ILLUSTRATED WITH
PORTRAITS, MAPS,
CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHS, AND
OTHER HISTORIC MATERIALS
In Sixteen Volumes
By Archer Hulbert, Published 1902
3,200 +  pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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“NOTHING is more typical of a civilization than its roads. The traveler
enters the city of Nazareth on a Roman road which has been used, perhaps,
since the Christian era dawned. Every line is typical of Rome; every block of stone speaks
of Roman power and Roman will. . .”
“. . . It was for the great game animals to mark out what became known as the first
thoroughfares of America. The plunging buffalo, keen of instinct, and nothing if not
a utilitarian, broke great roads across the continent on the summits of the watersheds,
beside which the first Indian trails were but traces through the forests. Heavy,
fleet of foot, capable of covering scores of miles a day, the buffalo tore his roads from
one feeding-ground to another, and from north to south, on the high grounds. . .”
“Beginning with the first highways of 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 conti-
nent. The
second monograph
will treat of the Indian thoroughfares of Amer-
ica; the
third, fourth, and fifth
, the three roads built westward during the old
French War, Washington's Road (Nemacolin's Path), Braddock's Road, and the
Old Glade (Forbes's ) Road. The
sixth monograph
will be a study of Boone's
Wilderness Road to Kentucky ; the
seventh and eighth
, a study of the principal portage
paths of the interior of the continent and of the military roads built in the Missis-
sippi basin during the era of conquest;
Vol. IX
will take up the historic water-
ways which most influenced westward conquest and immigration; the famed Cum-
berland Road, or Old National Road,  which more than any other material
structure in the land served to harmonize and strengthen, if not to save, the Union,"
will be the subject of the
tenth monograph
.
Two volumes will be given to the study of the pioneer roads of America, and two to
the consideration of the history of the great American canals.
The history of America in the later part of the pioneer period, between 1810 and
1840, centers about the roads and canals which were to that day what our trunk rail-
way lines are to us today. The " life of the road " was the life of the nation, and a
study of the traffic on those first highways of land and water, and of the customs
and experiences of the early travelers over them brings back with freshening
interest the story of our own Middle Age."
The final volume will treat of the practical side of the road question.
An index will conclude the series.”
Volume
Subject
1
Indians and Game Trails
2
Indian Thoroughfares
3
Washington's Road
4
Braddock's Road
5
Old Glade Road
6
Boone's Wilderness Road
7
Portage Paths
8
Military Roads
9
Waterways
10
Cumberland Road
11
Pioneer Roads
12
Pioneer Roads
13
Canals (OH and PA)
14
Canals (Erie)
15
Road Making Future
16
Index
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