- PROJECT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT BECOMES A PARTNER IN ..797 THE CANAL SYSTEM OF THE MIDDLE WEST OHIO TAKES THE LEAD INFLUENCE OF NEW YORK'S EXAMPLE - TWO IMPORTANT WATER- WAYS CREATED THEY UNITE THE OHIO RIVER WITH LAKE ERIE, THE ERIE CANAL, THE HUDSON RIVER AND THE ATLANTIC —INDI- ANA'S CANAL HISTORY AID BY THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT A FUNDAMENTAL ERROR OF JUDGMENT BY THE WESTERN PEO- M'NAIRY'S DECISIVE SPEECH THE WABASH AND ERIE CANAL ROUTE ENCOUNTERS AN INDIAN VILLAGE RESULT OF - - - - "LOG-ROLLING" LEGISLATION WHEN APPLIED TO PUBLIC IMPROVE- - TRAVEL ON THE CANALS THE EARLY BOATS PATTERNED AFTER KEEL- BOATS AND BARGES CHANGES IN THEIR FORM AND ARRANGE- MENT LINE-BOATS AND PACKET-BOATS GOING TO BED ON A CANAL PACKET -THE SLEEPING BUNKS WHY A TRAVELLER SOMETIMES HESITATED TO CHOOSE A LOWER BERTH CONDITIONS THE FOSSIL RAILWAYS OF AMERICA - GENERAL FEATURES CONNECTED WITH THE FIRST APPEARANCE AND USE OF THE RAIL HIGHWAY PRINCIPLE IN THIS COUNTRY OLIVER EVANS' PROPOSITION OF CHAPTER XL THE MODERN RAILROAD ACCURATELY FORESEEN AND DESCRIBED BY FIRST INCIDENT IN A SERIES OF EVENTS THAT LED TO AMERICAN 1823 PUBLIC DISCUSSION - — ORGANIZATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA INTERNAL IM- ....885 HIM - CHAPTER XLI STRICKLAND IS SENT TO ENGLAND THE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO - ADVANTAGE POSSESSED BY THE AMERICANS - ....898 CHAPTER XLII THE DREAM-BUILDERS SUPPLANTED BY MEN DESTINED TO PERFORM OF THE NEW DEVICE HOW TRACKS WERE FIRST BUILT - FOR SERMONS IN ITS BEHALF ONE OF THE RESPONSES......914 RAILWAY BUILDING BEGINS IN MARYLAND AND SOUTH CAROLINA MORE EXPERIENCES ON EARLY AMERICAN RAILWAYS · MANNER IN WHICH A PENNSYLVANIA ROAD ACQUIRED A LOCOMOTIVE —AC- COUNT OF ONE OF ITS TRIPS BY A PEDESTRIAN PARTICIPANT NEW YORK CITY'S FIRST LINE APPREHENSIONS OF THE PUB- LIC PRECAUTION TAKEN TO SOOTHE THEIR FEARS THE RE- SULT THE CAMDEN AND AMBOY ROAD TRAFFIC ACROSS NEW JERSEY · HOW ISAAC DRIPPS BUILT A LOCO- MOTIVE TENDER THREE NEW ENGLAND ENTERPRISES NO STEAM TRAVEL THERE UNTIL 1834-ONLY SIXTEEN HOURS BE- AN UNEXPECTED DEMAND FOR TRAVEL FACILITIES - FROM FENCE-RAIL ΤΟ AUTOMATIC COUPLER EVOLUTION OF THE AMERICAN PASSENGER COACH DESCRIPTIONS OF EARLY COACHES - CARS WITH UPPER DECKS, CUPOLAS, FLAGS AND BAR- ROOMS A STANDARD PASSENGER VEHICLE FINALLY EVOLVED CAPTAIN VERSUS ENGINEER CAPTAIN AYRES INVENTS THE BELL- ROPE AND HAS A FIGHT - CONSEQUENCES OF THE COMBAT AT PHOENIXVILLE THROUGH TICKETS PREVENTED BY THE JEAL- OUSIES OF ADJOINING ROADS FREE PASSES APPEAR ORIGIN OF THE MODERN RAIL DRIPPS INVENTS THE COWCATCHER FIRST PRIVATE CARS SLEEPING CARS USED IN 1838- CONSTRUCTION THE TELEGRAPH EMPLOYED BY RAILWAYS AMERICAN ROADS FREE FROM SERIOUS FATALITIES FOR TWELVE APPEARANCE OF RAILWAYS IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY · OHIO'S PIO- - TRAIL ON THE PRAIRIE CHICAGO'S ENTERPRISE THE TOWN FORBIDS A RAILWAY TO ENTER ITS LIMITS EARLY ROADS OF THE GENERAL VIEW OF TRAVEL CONDITIONS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI JUST BEFORE THE GREAT OVERLAND RUSH TO THE FAR WEST A CON- FUSING AND CHAOTIC HODGE-PODGE OF STAGE-COACHES, STEAM- BOATS, CANALS AND LITTLE RAILWAYS - -ONLY TWO WEEKS RE- QUIRED FOR AN EXTENSIVE TRIP IN THE EASTERN REGION MORE SYMPTOMS OF IMPROPER RAILWAY PRACTISES APPEAR FRAUDS COMMITTED ON TRAVELLERS COSTS OF VARIOUS JOURNEYS AND LAST PHASE OF A TASK COMMENCED MORE THAN TWO CENTURIES BEFORE AN OUTBURST OF HUMAN ENERGY AND AMBITION OUR TWO VIEWS OF THE MIGRATIONS THEIR WORLD IMPORTANCE BOONE'S INFLUENCE STILL ACTIVE VALUE OF THE MISSOURI RIVER AS AN EARLY ROUTE INTO THE THE RELATION OF THE INDIANS OF THE WEST TO TRANSCONTINENTAL TRAVEL RED PEOPLES NATIVE TO THE REGION BEYOND THE MIS- SISSIPPI STILL RETAINED THEIR SELF-RULE AND OWNED MUCH OF THE LAND WHEN THE GREAT OVERLAND MIGRATIONS BEGAN IN- DIANS TRANSPLANTED FROM THEIR EASTERN HOMES ALSO FORMED A BARRIER TO WHITE MOVEMENT JUST WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI TREATY RELATIONS BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT AND THE WESTERN TRIBES THE NATIVES ARE PAID LARGE SUMS FOR THEIR CONSENT CHAPTER LI THE CAUCASIAN CONQUEST OF THE OREGON COUNTRY FLOYD AND WESTERN DESERTS OF SAND RACE ANTAGONISM APPEARS BEYOND - ENGLAND'S PART ORIGIN AND ORGANIZATION OF THE "GREAT OF OVERLAND TRAVEL - A REVERSION TO THE EARLY CLAN METHOD CHAPTER LII THE SOUTH PASS ROUTE TO THE FAR WEST A TRAPPER WHO WAS ALSO WHITMAN JOINS THE MIGRATION OF 1843 COMMENT - - OF AMERICA AND ENGLAND ON THE OVERLAND MOVEMENT ITS IM- THEIR ACCOUNT OF THE LED TO IT— EXPULSION OF THE CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS DISCOVERY OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE VALLEY CONDITIONS IN CALIFORNIA DUR- -A CHRISTMAS FEAST -HALF THE EMIGRANTS ULTIMATELY |