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A history of travel in America, being an outline of the development in modes of travel from archaic vehicles of colonial times to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad: the influence of the Indians on the free movement and territorial unity of the white race: the part played by travel methods in the economic conquest of the continent: and those related human experiences, changing social conditions and governmental attitudes which accompanied the growth of a national travel system, by Seymour Dunbar. With two maps, twelve colored plates and four hundred illustrations.

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Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-148357

Description

L p., 2 l., 1530, [1] p. col. front., illus. (incl. facsims.) col. plates, maps (2 double) 24 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

Transportation History.
Frontier and pioneer life
Transportation Social aspects

Originator

Dunbar, Seymour.

Publication

New York, Tudor Pub. Co.

Description

L p., 2 l., 1530, [1] p. col. front., illus. (incl. facsims.) col. plates, maps (2 double) 24 cm.

Notes

"New edition."
Bibliography: p. [1445]-[1481]

Call Number

Stacks HE203.D77 1937

Places

United States
United States.

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