Note 16 — Chapter II · TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT IN THE UNITED STATES; EARLY TRAILS AND ROADS
Reading edition
“A History of Travel,” by Seymour Dunbar.
[17] “The American Nation,” “England in America,” by L. G. Tyler. Vol. IV, p. 322.
[18] “American Nation,” Vol. VIII, p. 15.
[19] Cf. “Historic Highways of America,” by A. B. Hurlbert, and “Basis of American History” (Vol. II of “The American Nation”), by L. Farrand.
[20] Ramsey’s “Annals of Tennessee.”
[21] “Historic Highways of America,” by A. B. Hurlbert, 16 volumes, 1902-05, A. H. Clark Company, Cleveland. A series of annotated reprints of some of the best contemporary volumes of travel in America, compiled by Reuben Gold Thwaites, 1904-07, 32 volumes, A. H. Clark Co., Cleveland.
“A History of Travel in America,” by Seymour Dunbar, 4 volumes, 1915, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, Ind.
“Basis of American History,” Chapter II, “Routes of Travel,” Vol. II of the American Nation Series, by Livingston Farrand, 1907, Harper & Brothers, New York. There is good bibliography in this volume.
[22] Cecil B. Hartley in his “Life of Daniel Boone,” gives the name of the head of this company as Colonel Richard Henderson.
[23] “The Winning of the West,” Vol. II, by Theodore Roosevelt.
[24] Dunbar’s “History of Travel,” Vol. I. Roosevelt’s “Winning of the West,” Vol. II.
[25] “The Wilderness Road.”
[26] “A History of Travel in America.”
[27] “Winning of the West.”
[28] Henry Howe.
[29] A pirogue proper is a canoe dug out of a single log. These may have been and probably were keel boats built of timber and the name pirogue extended to them colloquially.
[30] “The Winning of the West,” Vol. VI, by Theodore Roosevelt.
[31] Cf. “Winning of the West,” Vol. VI, p. 259; and “The American Nation,” Vol. XII, p. 94.
[32]
State Settled Admitted a Territory Admitted a State
Missouri 1755 1812 1821
Arkansas 1685 1819 1836
Kansas 1854 1854 1861
Nebraska 1847 1854 1867
North Dakota 1812 1861 1889
South Dakota 1859 1861 1889
Wyoming 1834 1868 1890
Colorado 1859 1861 1876
Idaho 1852 1863 1890
Montana 1861 1864 1889
Iowa 1833 1838 1846
Minnesota 1846 1849 1858
[33] Reports for 1920 show that New York has exceeded St. Louis in manufactured furs but St. Louis seems still to be the largest market for raw furs.
[34] Albert Watkins in “Collections of the Nebraska State Historical Society.” Vol. XVI, p. 22.
[35] Washington Irving’s “Astoria.”
[36] Cf. p. 230, Ibid.
[37] Dunbar’s “History of Travel.”
[38] Doddridge’s “Notes on the Settlement of Indian Wars.” Monette’s “History of the Valley of the Mississippi.”
[39] Cf. Gallatin’s report for a scheme of national roads and pavements (Adams’ Gallatin, p. 350 et seq.).
[40] Richardson, “Messages and Papers.”
[41] Hurlbert, “Cumberland Road.”
[42] Hulbert, “The Paths of Inland Commerce.”
[43] “American Nation,” Vol. XIV, p. 100.
[44] Hurlbert, “The Paths of Inland Commerce,” p. 121.
[45] Searight, quoted by Hurlbert.
[46] Debates of Congress VI, 433-435, 806, 820.