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Part 3, Vols 9-12: Social Life and Manners, 3rd series
アメリカ研究基本文献シリーズ
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Volume 9-12. Seymour Dumbar A History of Travel in America (1915)
ISBN 4-902708-13-2 • 1602 pp., 12 col pl., ill., maps
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Topics discussed include: west- and southward exploration and migration;
life on the frontier; relations with the indigenous population;
geography and condition of the country and the difficulty of travel;
Indian trails and guides; early travel by water: canoes, pole-boats and
ferries, primitive bridges; sedan chairs; horseback journeys and the
first horse vehicles; travel in winter; forests and wilderness; the hill
people; log cabins and cabin dwellers; Daniel Boone’s wilderness road;
caravans; the Transylvania Company; relationship between forest trails
and rivers; women in pioneer life and work; establishment of a regular
national transportation system; appearance of the stage-coach; the era
of the pack-train; early taverns and travel conditions: laws and
regulations; John Fitch and the application of steam in transportation;
steam boats; the age of the flatboat, ark and keel-boat; early
companies, legislature, and monopoly; travel through Indian territory;
final wars and treaties concerning control of territories; the Santa Fe
Trail; the Mississippi Valley; the last pioneer generation; regulation
of taverns, roads, ferries and navigation; end of the river pirates;
economic importance of the horse; horse thieves; Davy Crockett and
flatboat life; origin and development of the national roads; evolution
of the stage-coach; building and exploitation of a canal network; line-
and packet-boats; development of railroads and locomotives; migration to
the West; the Mormon overland pilgrimage; the transcontinental railway,
etc.
The work is based on numerous travel accounts, diaries, and other
primary sources, listed in the extensive “Contribution to a Bibliography
of the History of Travel in