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History of transportation in the United States before 1860
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Includes information on stage coaches, stage lines, etc.
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- Creator
- prepared under the direction of Balthasar Henry Meyer by Caroline E. MacGill and a staff of collaborators
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- English
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- [New York] : P. Smith, 1948
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- xi, 678 pages, 5 leaves of plates (1 folded) : maps ; 24 cm
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- ocm00371557, ocm37956454
- Reprint. Originally published: Washington: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1917.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-649).
- Early trails, roads and natural waterways -- Tolls and transportation costs on early roads and canals -- Traffic by rivers, trails and roads in the trans-Appalachian region -- Early land routes in Ohio -- Waterways in New England -- Canals and water routes in New York -- Canals and waterways in Pennsylvania -- Roads, canals and waterways in the South -- Transportation in the middle West before the railroad era -- Plank roads -- The first railways -- The transportation problem in New England -- Railroads in New York -- Railroads in the Middle Atlantic States -- Railroads in the South -- Railroads in the West -- Review and summary