Following the frontier
Subtitle: American transportation in the nineteenth century
By: [by] Leonard F. James. Illustrated by Raymond Houlihan.
Contributors: Houlihan, Raymond F.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Series: Curriculum-related books
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World
Published: 1968
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Transportation -- Juvenile literature
Genres: Juvenile literature
Description: Examines the modes of transportation that carried Americans of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries westward to the Pacific, including packets on the Erie Canal, steamboats on the Mississippi, overland mail service, and the first transcontinental railroad.
Notes: j-74657