To the wide Missouri: traveling in America during the first decades of westward expansion
This work is a history of early roadways, canals, stagecoach lines, and railroads. While the great overland migration routes to America's far west are well known and documented, less attention has been given to how Americans in the first decades of the republic traveled across the western front...
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2011
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| Zusammenfassung: | This work is a history of early roadways, canals, stagecoach lines, and railroads. While the great overland migration routes to America's far west are well known and documented, less attention has been given to how Americans in the first decades of the republic traveled across the western frontiers of the original colonies. Following the revolution, Americans began to seek their fortunes to the west in greater numbers. Land grants to veterans inspired others to move, including tradesmen, merchants, and tavern owners. With the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the country doubled in size, and the rate of migration became extraordinary, with wider and more durable roads built, ferries installed at river crossings, canals cut to move goods, regular stage routes established, and ultimately the first railroad tracks laid down. Entire regions that supported few communities in the 1790s exploded in population, and as a result seven new states were admitted to the Union in the decade following the War of 1812. By 1839, the National Road extended more than 700 miles from Washington, D.C., to central Illinois, New York's Erie Canal operated from Albany to Buffalo, and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad carried passengers west, ultimately to the Ohio River. This book covers the routes and methods that emigrants used to reach the west in the forty-year period following the Louisiana Purchase. Using contemporary maps and the graphic descriptions found in diaries, journals, letters, and newspaper accounts, the author details not only the land and water routes that led settlers to the western country, but also illustrates the hardship, perseverance, humor, and romance that colored their journey. -- Publisher's description |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-307) and index 1803-1819 : waterways ; roadways ; stagecoach lines -- 1819-1832 : waterways ; roadways ; stagecoach lines ; canals ; railroads -- 1832-1843 : waterways ; roadways ; stagecoach lines ; canals ; railroads -- Canal and railroad partnerships -- Railroads west of the mountains |
| Beschreibung: | 321 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9781594161209 |
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