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, Volume 4Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915 |
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Pagina 1153
... cost . In some localities they themselves supplied fuel to the boats on a business basis . In order to circumvent the natives and to reduce the danger attendant upon their opposition Cap- tain La Barge on one occasion equipped one of ...
... cost . In some localities they themselves supplied fuel to the boats on a business basis . In order to circumvent the natives and to reduce the danger attendant upon their opposition Cap- tain La Barge on one occasion equipped one of ...
Pagina 1297
... cost of suffer- ing than any others , should have been guided at last by members of the vanquished race , and that they could only complete their journey through strength given to them by dead and living Indians . CHAPTER LV THE ...
... cost of suffer- ing than any others , should have been guided at last by members of the vanquished race , and that they could only complete their journey through strength given to them by dead and living Indians . CHAPTER LV THE ...
Pagina 1313
... cost about $ 120 each . The cause of so many wagons being abandoned is to endeavor to save the animals and reach the end of the journey as soon as possible by packing through ; the loss of personal goods is a matter of small importance ...
... cost about $ 120 each . The cause of so many wagons being abandoned is to endeavor to save the animals and reach the end of the journey as soon as possible by packing through ; the loss of personal goods is a matter of small importance ...
Pagina 1319
... cost of a journey from the Mississippi to the Pacific in one of its vehicles was one hundred dollars . After the establishment of the Overland Mail , and several other stage lines , no advance in methods of progress through the West was ...
... cost of a journey from the Mississippi to the Pacific in one of its vehicles was one hundred dollars . After the establishment of the Overland Mail , and several other stage lines , no advance in methods of progress through the West was ...
Pagina 1364
... of original building by 1 The recent American tendency has been to decrease the speed of express trains , rather than to increase it . engineers from foundation upward . Its cost will be vast 1364 A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA.
... of original building by 1 The recent American tendency has been to decrease the speed of express trains , rather than to increase it . engineers from foundation upward . Its cost will be vast 1364 A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA.
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A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the ..., Volume 4 Seymour Dunbar Volledige weergave - 1915 |
A History of Travel in America: Being an Outline of the ..., Volume 4 Seymour Dunbar Volledige weergave - 1915 |
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Pagina 1102 - Legacy, which was received in 1880 under the will of JONATHAN BROWN BRIGHT of Waltham, Massachusetts, is to be expended for books for the College Library. The other half of the income is devoted to scholarships in Harvard University for the benefit of descendants of HENRY BRIGHT, JR., who died at Watertown, Massachusetts, in 1686.
Pagina 1202 - ... corral to be yoked. The corral is a circle one hundred yards deep, formed with wagons connected strongly with each other ; the wagon in the rear being connected with the wagon in front by its tongue and ox chains. It is a strong barrier that the most vicious ox cannot break, and in case of an attack of the Sioux would be no contemptible intrenchment.
Pagina 1216 - We, the people of Oregon Territory, for purposes of mutual protection, and to secure peace and prosperity among ourselves, agree to adopt the following laws and regulations until such time as the United States of America extend their jurisdiction over us.
Pagina 1202 - It is within ten minutes of seven ; the corral but now a strong barricade is everywhere broken, the teams being attached to the wagons. The women and children have taken their places in them. The pilot (a borderer who has passed his life on the verge of civilization and has been chosen to the post of leader from his knowledge of the savage and his experience in travel through roadless wastes), stands ready, in the midst of his pioneers and aids, to mount and lead the way. Ten or fifteen young men,...
Pagina 1252 - In some of these, the fever prevailed to such an extent that hardly any escaped it. They let their cows go unmilked ; they wanted for voices to raise the psalm of Sundays ; the few who were able to keep their feet, went about among the tents and wagons with food and water, like nurses through the wards of an infirmary. Here, at one time, the digging got behind hand ; burials were slow ; and you might see women sit in the open tents keeping the flies off their dead children, some time after decomposition...
Pagina 1203 - ... travel of the wagons. Today, the ground being favorable, little time has been lost in preparing the road, so that he and his pioneers are at the nooning place an hour in advance of the wagons, which time is spent in preparing convenient watering places for the animals and digging little wells near the bank of the Platte. As the teams are not unyoked, but simply turned loose from the wagons, a corral is not formed at noon, but the wagons are drawn up in columns, four abreast, the leading wagon...
Pagina 1202 - All know when, at seven o'clock, the signal to march sounds, that those not ready to take their proper places in the line of march must fall into the dusty rear for the day.
Pagina 1309 - There would be no difficulty in the way of constructing a railroad from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean...
Pagina 1204 - It is now one o'clock ; the bugle has sounded and the caravan has resumed its westward journey. It is in the same order, but the evening is far less animated than the morning march; a drowsiness has fallen apparently on man and beast ; teamsters drop asleep on their perches and even when walking by their teams, and the words of command are now addressed to the slowly creeping oxen in the soft tenor of women or the piping treble of children, while the snores of the teamsters make a droning accompaniment.
Pagina 1247 - I heard the flies buzz and the water-ripples break against the shallow of the beach. I walked through the solitary streets. The town lay as in a dream, under some deadening spell of loneliness, from which I almost feared to wake it. For plainly it had not slept long. There was no grass growing up in the paved ways. Rains had not entirely washed away the prints of dusty footsteps. Yet I went about unchecked. I went into empty workshops, ropewalks and smithies. The spinner's wheel was idle ; the carpenter...