The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-07-15
tcnrIatIan scIehce MonItor.

continent OF North America. VIII fol
low In the path of a mighty thronr
for whom motley seems TO have beer
Indeed the wear Here went Indian
warriors. erotesaue in feathers and
warpaint. Spanish Adventures with
elitteriag armor. French coureurs dc
Aois. bluo-ciad contnentnis and Brit
len soldiers In conventional red. fron-
Nersmcn IN fringed doeskins. Next
can plainsnen. their bronchos ever
brightly c~aparisoned, English settlers
In canvas-topped wagons. pony-ex-
preFs riders on their sturdy mounts.
traders. c~atticmen, goldseekoTs. with
the trick Of the sombrcro and the hip
high boots.
Fancy may thread these patns side
by side with Chateauor.aad's Alfalfa.
with EvsnEeIine or Minnehaha. with
Leatherstocking or Remona or per-
haps with the cheerful Mark Taploy:
but the young Georse Washington. or
the tall boylsh Lincoln. axe on Shout
der. Daniel Boone. Crockett or Aaron
Burr. Houston. s~accsjawea or Audu-
bon In his Theatre w6odEman's garb,
even washlngtons Irving. making his
adventurous tour OF the pfsirics. are
hardly less picturesque In the thought
OF today than these figures OF ro-
nance. Indeed. 90 trace the story OF
these trails Is TO revive most OF the
history OF the new world. down to the
time OF the railroads.
Al present the highway fails
roughly into four divisions: First the
early route from Boston to New
York. on to NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
Baltimore and Washington II me
wishes. and straight west To the
Pennsylvania frontier; second. the
Cumberland trail across tho middle
states to 81. Louis; third, the santa
Fe trail over the southwestern plains,
and last, the long pull through the
Arizona dcserts-now %beginninA 10
blossom as the rose-on into Califor-
/ MIA.
The Boston post road reached New
York by way Of Springfield. A party
arriving at midnight al a Connecti-
cut ~postmaster's house. might and
him unwilling to rout out fresh
horses for them till he heard that
they brought news. II was over this
route that Washington rode to take
command OF the Continental army at
Cambridge. and over this road came
his virginia rihemen to be received
oy him with open arms. the path
from New York to Philadelphia was
the most travelled. Tor these were the
cities most in the public eye, as the
| chief port and the capital OF the
young nation. and Baltimore lay be-
yond them. the door to the south.
AZ nrst the roads were OF course In
diaa trails, whether east or west. II
Is a weli-kneWn fact that when the
engineers sought the best pass for the
railroad through the Rocky O
tains they followed the path OF Lewis
and Clarke. chosen By them at the
advice OF Indian guides. as the best
way oyer the Great Divide" Penn
~syivaaia Is threaded with these indian
trails. some OF them now marked and
connected with the main national
trail. During the colonial period a
main road" near the center OF the
state was probably what was later
called the F~rankstown path. along the
Juninta to the Allegheny mountains,
and on west. The Great Warrior 8
path ran from old shawnee Town on
the Potomac. Christopher Gist. who
travelled To the forks OF the ohio In
1850 and was later Washington's
guido on that memorable first visit TO
the French forts. followed the War
rior's path n left a description Of
II, aud OF lands farther west, In his
diary. The Frankstown path was the
easier, however. n the Pennsylvania
railroad follows Il today.
The son Of a pioneer of Kentucky
tells how as a child he made the ad-
yenturous voyage down the Ohio. The
travellers would combine 20
provide q boat. The writer recalls be-
ing lifted over the crowd 90 see the
buffalo splashlng IN the river. Tho
family settled near Mays Lick, and
Daniel Boone lived within a few miles.
Their house was on The old Ounalo
trace, through the cane fields 10 tho
Blue Licks, where the animals wen
Tor salt. The bunaloes used To travel
in single file. like wild geese follow
ing "A leader. no matter how large the
drove. They often cut the trace shOul-
der high 20 She horses of the settlers,
who later followed these strange
trails.
soon this family went INTO Ohio 10
take over some lands. and uf course
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deed, their own cabin was once taken
possession OF by a strange family.
OFTEN at night their cabin floor would
bc laid fuil Of travellers.
OF famous names among pathmak-
ers In the west one perhaps deserves
more and has received less recOgni-
tio1 than Zcbulon NJ. Pike. He was
one of the hrst Americans 20 reach
Santa Re. After finding Out the
sources OF the Mississippi ne pen-
etrated farther west. explored the
Kansas river and found the head
waters ~ the Arkansas, In 1905. at
what IL now Cortland, Kan, Pike rails
Ell the hrst American flag displayed
west OF abe Mississippi river hank. lie
named the famous peak In Colorado,
Grand peak. The name pixies peak
began TO be used about 1890.
News % santa re n 81 people
who would trade with the American
frontier was brought 10 ~. Louis by
Pike. and various expeditions across
the plains followed, out regular trade
with santa Pc was not established
until 1879. Josiah GTogg's Com