INDEX
- Adams, Charles Francis, cited, 7
- Adams, John Quincy, 100
- Adirondacks, 32
- Albany, N.Y., 6, 10, 15, 16
- Alexander, Mt., 130
- Alexandria, Va., 41, 86
- Allegheny Front, 74, 78, 80, 82
- Allegheny Portage Railway, 75, 76, 80
- Allegheny river, 111
- Allentown, Pa., 79
- Altoona, Pa., 77;
- description of, 81
- Amsterdam, N.Y., 20
- Ann, Fort, 32
- Annapolis, Md., 88
- Antietam, 132
- Appalachians, southern, 174
- “Arks” on the Susquehanna, 41
- Arnold, Benedict, 37
- Atkinson, Gov. W. G., 178
- Atlanta, Ga., 174–180
- Auburn, N.Y., 57
- Bald Eagle valley, 80
- Baltimore, Md., 53, 86, 101;
- growth of, 107
- Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 99, 101, 102, 110
- Barges on the Ohio, 116, 118
- Barton, Clara, cited, 82
- Bay Road, Mass., 4
- Bedford, Pa., 71, 77
- Bemis Heights, 38
- Bennington, Vt., 38
- Berkshires, 5;
- railway through, 9, 10
- Bethlehem, Pa., 79
- Binghamton, N.Y., 52
- Birmingham, Ala., 181
- Black Rock (Buffalo), 47
- “Blackbeard,” 130
- Blockhouse at Pittsburg, 112
- Blount College, 170
- Blue Grass country, 127, 151, 166
- Blue mountain, 79
- Blue Ridge mountains, 88, 130
- Boone, Daniel, early life, 144;
- training, 145;
- portrait, 145;
- moves to North Carolina, 146;
- serves with Braddock, 146;
- camps in Kentucky, 147;
- visits Cumberland Gap, 148;
- founds Boonesborough, 148;
- buys lands of the Indians, 149;
- marks out the Wilderness road, 149
- Boonesborough, 148
- Boston, Mass., 1, 2, 7, 12
- Braddock, General, 69, 90, 91, 146
- Braddock, Pa., 83
- Brant, Joseph, 33
- Bristol, Tenn., 134
- British, in New York, 32;
- in the Ohio country, 156
- Brownsville, Pa., 93, 117
- Buffalo, 52, 57, 60, 110;
- growth of, 61
- Burgoyne, General, 32, 37
- Burnside, General, 168
- Business, increase of, 114, 118
- Cambria Steel Company, 83
- Cameron hill, 173
- Campbell, William and Arthur, 160
- Canajoharie, N.Y., 24
- Canals, 44;
- Erie, 7, 46, 48, 50–52;
- Pennsylvania, 74;
- Chesapeake and Ohio, 98–101, 107;
- Delaware and Hudson, 53;
- at Louisville, Ky., 127
- Carlisle, Pa., 71, 79, 132
- Carroll, Charles, 101
- Carry to Schenectady, the, 19, 22
- Catch-me-if-you-can, 2
- Catskill mountains, 15, 32
- Chambersburg, Pa., 71, 132
- Champlain, lake, 31, 37
- Charlottesville, Va., 142
- Chattahoochee river, 179
- Chattanooga, Tenn., 135;
- description of, 173–175
- Cherokee Indians, 139, 149
- Chesapeake bay, 86
- Chesapeake and Ohio canal, 107;
- building of, 98–101
- Chicago, 110
- Chickamauga, 174
- Chissel, Fort, 135
- Cincinnati, Ohio, description of, 123–127
- Clark, George Rogers, raises an army, 156;
- portrait, 157;
- captures Kaskaskia and Vincennes, 158
- Clay, Henry, stories of, 96, 114
- Cleveland, Benjamin, 160
- Clinch river, 134
- Clinton, De Witt, 44, 49;
- stirs up legislature, 40;
- portrait, 43;
- train, 53, 54
- Coal, 104, 118, 122, 153, 170, 181
- Cohoes, N.Y., 22
- Coke ovens, 108
- Columbia, The, 2
- Columbia, Pa., 69, 74, 76
- Columbus, Ohio, 94
- Conemaugh river, 75, 82
- Conestoga creek, 67
- Conestoga Traction Company, 70
- Conestoga wagons, 77
- Connecticut river, 4
- Construction, early railway, 105
- Cooper, Peter, 106
- Cornstalk, 155
- Cornwallis, Lord, 158
- Cotton, 178
- Cumberland, Fort, 89, 90;
- city of, 93, 95, 102
- Cumberland Gap, 142, 148, 150, 152
- Cumberland mountains, 134, 142
- Cumberland river, 164, 174
- Cumberland road, 93
- Cunard, Samuel, 2
- Cunard line, 2, 8
- Dams, use of, 119
- Danforth, Mr., and salt making, 27
- Deerfield valley, 8
- Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, 53
- Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad, 60
- De-o-wain-sta, 23
- Detroit, 41, 156
- Dickens, Charles, 126
- Dinwiddie, Governor, 89
- Doak, Rev. Samuel, 160
- Dongan, Gov. Thomas, 40
- Dunlap’s creek, 96
- Dunmore, Lord, 155
- Duquesne, Fort, 91
- Dutch, in New York, 14, 18, 31
- Earle, Mrs. Alice Morse, cited, 55
- Easton, Pa., 79
- Edward, Fort, 31
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo, cited, 1
- Empire State Express, 56
- England, interest of, in fur trade, 18;
- railways of, 55
- Erie canal, 7, 42, 46, 48, 50–52
- Erie, lake, 18, 42, 98
- Erie Railroad, 60
- Euphrates river, 130
- Fairfax, Lord William, 88
- Falls of the Ohio, 127, 146, 152
- Farms in Pennsylvania, 66
- “Feeders” of Erie canal, 52
- Ferguson, Patrick, 159
- Finley, John, 146, 148
- Fishing interests, 104
- Flag, perhaps the first American, 34
- Flatboats, 117
- Floyd, Gen. William, 22
- Forbes’s road, 71
- Forts:
- Orange, 17;
- Stanwix, 22, 23, 34, 37, 61, 149;
- Schuyler, 23;
- Johnson, 26;
- Edward, 31;
- Ann, 32;
- Ticonderoga, 32, 37, 38;
- Cumberland, 89, 90;
- Duquesne, 91;
- Chissel, 135;
- Sanders, 168
- Franklin, Benjamin, 4, 69, 130
- “Franklin,” state of, 166
- Frederick, Md., 93
- French, in Ohio country, 89
- French and Indian War, 69
- French Broad river, 135, 159, 170
- Frostburg, Md., 90, 93
- Fur trade, 18, 24, 40
- Furnaces near Pittsburg, 121
- Gansevoort, Col. Peter, 34
- Gas, natural, 120
- “Gate City,” the, 174
- Genesee road, 24, 25
- Genesee street, Utica, 23
- Geneva, 24, 25
- George, Mt., 130
- Georgetown, D.C., 100
- Georgia Institute of Technology, 179
- Germans in Pennsylvania, 66;
- in Tennessee, 136
- Ginseng, 24
- Gist, Christopher, 89
- Glass mills, 122
- Gray, Captain, 2
- Great Kanawha river, 155
- Great Smoky mountains, 134, 170
- Great Valley, the, 71, 130, 132, 134, 136, 139
- Gulliver’s Travels, 150
- Gypsum, 104
- Hagerstown, Md., 25, 132, 165
- Half Moon, the, 15
- Halifax, 2
- Hambright’s Hotel, 70
- Hamburg-American line, 108
- Hamilton, Col. Henry, 156
- Hancock, Gov. John, 2
- Hanks, Abraham, 149
- Harlem, 14
- Harpers Ferry, 107, 130, 132
- Harriman, Tenn., 170
- Harrisburg, Pa., 74, 85, 132;
- description of, 78
- Henry, Patrick, 156
- Herkimer, Nicholas, 29, 33, 35, 36
- Hessians, 33, 38
- Hill, Gen. A. P., 142
- Hit or Miss, the, 77
- Hiwassee river, 135
- Hollidaysburg, Pa., 74
- Holston river, 134
- Honesdale, Pa., 53
- Hoosac mountain, 5, 8
- Hoosac tunnel, 9–11
- Hoosick river, 5
- Housatonic river, 5
- Howe, General, 32
- Hudson, Henry, 15, 16
- Hudson river, 15
- Huguenots, 136
- Hulbert, cited, 105
- Illinois, 158
- Indiana, 158
- Indians, 144, 149, 163, 164;
- in New York, 14, 17, 18, 33;
- at Watauga, 138;
- at Point Pleasant, 155
- Indies, hope of reaching, 15
- Iron works, 121, 129, 170, 180
- Iroquois Indians, 18
- Jackson, “Stonewall,” 133
- James river, 133;
- gap, 134
- Jefferson, Thomas, 156
- Johns Hopkins University, 108
- Johnson, Fort, 26
- Johnson, John, 36
- Johnson, Sir William, 20
- Johnstown, N.Y., 20
- Johnstown, Pa., 75, 76, 82
- Joppa, 92
- Juniata river, 74
- Kaskaskia, Ill., 116, 157
- Kentucky, 127, 154, 164;
- becomes a state, 165
- Kings Mountain, 158, 160
- Knights, Sarah, 4
- Knox, Gen. Henry, 170
- Knoxville, 134, 166, 170
- Lake Shore Railroad, 110
- Lancaster, Pa., 65, 72, 78
- Lancaster pike, 65, 67, 70
- Lee, Arthur, 113
- Lee, Richard Henry, 98
- Lee, Gen. Robert E., 132
- Legislators allowed boat hire, 87
- Lewis, Andrew, 155
- Licking river, 124
- Limestones, 104, 132, 151, 169
- Lincoln, Abraham, 117, 149
- Little Falls, N.Y., 22, 42
- Little Tennessee river, 135
- Liverpool, 110
- Locks, 45
- Logan, 155
- London, 110
- Long House, the, 18
- Longstreet, General, 168
- Lookout Mountain, 173
- Losantiville, 124
- Louisville, 117, 127
- Lulbegrud creek, 151
- Luray, 131, 132
- Lyell, Sir Charles, cited, 126
- McClellan, General, 132
- Mail, first, received at Utica, 24
- Mail bags, race of the, 109
- Mail coaches, 94
- Manhattan island, 14, 15
- Marble, 104, 168, 171
- Maryland, 86
- Memphis, 172
- Middlesboro, 153
- Milestone on Braddock’s road, 90
- Missionary Ridge, 173
- Mobile, 174
- Mohawk valley, 16–19, 31, 42, 59
- Monongahela river, 93, 96, 111
- Morris, Gouverneur, 42
- Mount Vernon, 41, 86
- Nash, Oliver, 163
- Nashborough (Nashville), 163, 171, 173
- National Road, the, 91, 93, 96, 123
- New Amsterdam, 14
- New Jersey, Scotch-Irish in, 66
- New Netherlands, 14
- New river (Great Kanawha), 134
- New York Central Railway, 20, 30, 58, 60, 62
- New York City, 2, 7, 14
- New York state, 27;
- well adapted for canal, 44
- Newburg, N.Y., 60
- Noah’s Ark, 49
- Nolichucky river, 159
- Norfolk and Western Railway, 133
- North Adams, Mass., 5
- North American Review, 102
- North Carolina, 137, 146
- North-German Lloyd line, 108
- Ocmulgee river, 179
- Ogden, Utah, 109
- Ohio Company, 88
- Ohio country, French in, 89
- Ohio river, 76, 98, 111, 123, 127, 152
- Oil City, 120
- Omaha, 109
- Oneida Indians, 17
- Oneida Carrying Place, 22
- Onondaga salt, 27, 113
- Ontario, lake, 18, 22, 33
- Oriskany, 29, 30, 35
- Oswego, 32
- Oswego river, 22
- Otsego lake, 98
- Oyster industry, 104
- “Packers,” 72
- Packets, 50
- Parton, James, cited, 120
- Penn, William, 66
- Pennsylvania, settlement of, 66
- Pennsylvania Railroad, 77–85
- “Pennsylvania Dutch,” 66
- Pennsylvania canal, 74
- Phelps, Abner, 9
- Philadelphia, 41, 63
- Pike, Pittsburg, 72;
- Frederick, 93
- Pineville gap, 143, 147
- Pittsburg, 64, 71, 75, 83, 107, 156;
- description of, 111, 115, 120, 122;
- pike, 72
- Pittsfield, Mass., 5
- Point Pleasant, 155
- Portage Railway, Allegheny, 75, 76, 80
- Post, John, 23, 24
- Potomac Company, 99
- Potomac river, 86, 106
- Powell, Ambrose, 142
- Powell’s river, 134, 142
- Prairies in Kentucky, 152
- Princeton College, 66
- Providence, R.I., 4
- Puncheon floors, 140
- Queen City, the, 124
- Queenstown, 110
- Quincy, Mass., 53
- Railways:
- through the Berkshires, 9, 10;
- from Albany to Schenectady, 9, 53;
- early, 53, 56;
- opposition to, 55;
- growth of, 60, 109, 181;
- West Shore, 59;
- Erie, 60;
- New York Central, 20, 30, 58, 60, 62;
- Wabash, 102;
- Baltimore and Ohio, 99, 101, 102, 110;
- Southern Pacific, 109;
- Union Pacific, 109;
- Lake Shore, 110;
- Norfolk and Western, 133;
- Southern, 134, 170
- Reading, Pa., 79
- Red Star line, 108
- Redstone, 117
- Richardson, Judge John, 46
- Rivers important in a country’s growth, 5–7, 16, 17, 24, 26, 31, 41, 122, 126, 133
- Roads, in New England, 4, 6, 7;
- stage, 64;
- development of, 72;
- indifference to, 87;
- national interest in, 92;
- Braddock’s, 90;
- Cumberland, 93;
- Frederick, 93;
- National, 91, 93, 96;
- Wilderness (Boone’s trail, Kentucky road, Virginia road, Caintuck Hog road), 127, 149
- Roanoke, 134
- Robertson, James, goes to Watauga, 137;
- pacifies the Indians, 139;
- helps protect the new settlement, 155;
- founds Nashborough, 163;
- trusted by the people, 164;
- portrait, 164;
- ability, 172
- Rochester, N.Y., 25, 52
- Rochester, Colonel, 26, 41, 61, 132
- “Rolling roads,” 88
- Rome, 22, 46, 61
- Roosevelt, Theodore, cited, 137, 140, 160
- Ross’s Landing, 174
- Sails on cars, 105
- St. Clair, General, 124
- St. Leger, General, 33, 61
- Salt, 27, 61, 113
- Samp mortars, 21
- San Francisco, 109
- Saratoga, 38
- Schenectady, 19, 42, 47, 61
- “Schonowe,” 19
- Schuyler, Fort (Utica), 23
- Schuyler, Han Yost, 37
- Schuylerville, 38
- Scotch-Irish, 66, 136
- Seneca river, 24
- Seneca lake, 25
- Settlement:
- in New England, 4;
- in New York, 14, 24;
- in Pennsylvania, 66;
- in the Ohio country, 117;
- in Tennessee, 135, 170;
- in Kentucky, 148
- Sevier, John, goes to Watauga, 138;
- fights on the frontier, 155;
- plans to attack Ferguson, 160;
- returns home, 162;
- portrait, 162;
- monument to, 165;
- other honors, 166;
- on the Tennessee river, 172
- Shelby, Isaac, 155, 159, 165
- Shelbyville, 165
- Shenandoah valley, 88, 107, 130, 132
- Sheridan, 133
- Shippensburg, Pa., 71
- Shreve, Captain, 117
- Slate, 104
- “Smoky City, The,” 120
- South Mountain, Pa., 132
- Southern Pacific Railway, 22
- Southern Railway, 134, 170
- Speed of early trains, 105
- Spotswood, Alexander, 129
- Springfield, Mass., 6, 10
- Stanwix, Fort, 22, 23, 34, 37, 61, 149
- Stark, General, 38
- Staunton, Va., 135
- Steamboats, 118
- Stephenson, George, 53
- Stillwater, 38
- Susquehanna valley, 26, 41, 46, 104
- Swift Run Gap, 130
- Sycamore Shoals, 160
- Sydney, Australia, 109
- Syracuse, 27, 52, 57, 61
- Tarleton, Colonel, 159
- Teamsters of early days, 64, 69
- Tennessee, 134, 154, 164, 172;
- University of, 170
- Tennessee river, 134, 142, 163, 167, 172, 174
- Ticonderoga, 32, 37, 38
- Tidewater country, 87, 130
- Timber, 104, 180
- Toll houses, 68, 87
- Toll rates, 94
- Tom Thumb, 106
- Trails, old, 4, 6, 17, 19, 22, 25, 28, 72
- Tramways in England, 54
- Transylvania Company, 148
- Travel, early, 5, 22, 56, 64, 91
- Trow Plat, 23
- Trunk line, 57
- “Tubal Cain of Virginia,” 129
- Tudor, Frederick, 4
- Twentieth Century Limited, 56
- Union Pacific Railroad, 109
- University of Tennessee, 170
- Utica, 21, 23, 37, 57, 61
- Valley of east Tennessee, 135;
- of Virginia, 132
- Valley, the Great, 71, 130, 132, 134, 136, 139
- Valleys as natural roads, 5–7, 16, 17, 22, 24, 26, 31, 41, 126, 133, 142, 152, 156
- Van Curler, Arent, 17, 19, 57, 61
- Vanderbilt, Cornelius, 58
- Ventura, the, 109
- Vincennes, Ind., 158
- Virginia, 129, 154;
- valley of, 132
- Wabash Railway Company, 102
- Wabash river, 158
- Walker, Dr. Thomas, 142
- Ward, Nancy, 139
- Washington, D.C., 91, 93, 94
- Washington, George, 41, 60, 86, 112, 133;
- part taken by, in road making, 88–92, 98
- Washington, Lawrence, 89
- Watauga Settlement, 135–141, 144, 146, 159
- Waterford, 47
- West, the, 40, 60
- Westfield valley, 6
- West Shore Railway, 59
- Wheeling, 94, 107, 122
- White, Hugh, 21
- Whitesboro, 21
- Wilderness Road, 127, 149
- Willett, Captain Marinus, 35
- William and Mary College, 142
- Wills creek, 89, 102
- Wills mountain, 93
- Winchester, Va., 132, 135
- Windmills, Dutch, 15
- Wood creek, 22, 42
- Yadkin valley, North Carolina, 146