Historic highways of America ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hulbert, Archer Butler, 1873-1933.

Contributor:

Rupp Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roads--United States.

Roads.

United States.

Physical Description:

16 volumes : frontispieces (v. 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13-15) plates, maps (partly folded) ; 27 x 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Cleveland, O. : The A. H. Clark Company, 1902-05.

Contents:

v. 1. Paths of the mound-building Indians and great game animals. 1902.

v. 2. Indian thoroughfares. 1902.

v. 3. Washington's road (Nemacolin's path) the first chapter of the old French war. 1903.

v. 4. Braddock's road and three relative papers. 1903.

v. 5. The Old Glade (Forbe's) road (Pennsylvania state road) 1903.

v. 6. Boone's wilderness road. 1903.

v. 7. Portage paths, the keys of the continent. 1903.

v. 8. Military roads of the Mississippi basin. 1904.

v. 9. Waterways of westward expansion. 1903.

v. 10. The Cumberland road. 1904.

v. 11-12. Pioneer roads and experience of travelers. 1904.

v. 13-14. The great American canals (v. 1. The Chesapeake and Ohio canal and the Pennsylvania canal. v. 2. The Erie canal) 1904.

v. 15. The future of road-making in America; a symposium by A. B. Hulbert and others. 1905.

v. 16. Index.

Notes:

"Fifty sets were printed on large paper of which this is one of two sets for copyright."--Ms. note on p. 2 of v. 1, signed Archer Butler Hulbert.

OCLC:

419703