Pilots of the republic
Subtitle: the romance of the pioneer promoter in the middle West
By: by Archer Butler Hulbert ... with sixteen portraits, and illustrative initials by Walter J. Enright.
Publisher: A. C. McClurg & Co.
Published: 1906
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Pioneers -- United States; Canals -- United States; Mississippi River Valley -- History; Northwestern States -- History
Table of contents: title: Introductory: The brother of the sword.; title: Washington: the promoter of western investments.; title: Richard Henderson: the founder of Transylvania.; title: Rufus Putnam: the father of Ohio.; title: David Zeisberger: hero of "the meadow of light".; title: George Rogers Clark: founder of Louisville.; title: Henry Clay: promoter of the first American highway.; title: Morris and Clinton: fathers of the Erie Canal.; title: Thomas and Mercer: rival promoters of canal and railway.; title: Lewis and Clark: explorers of Louisiana.; title: Astor: the promoter of Astoria.; title: Marcus Whitman: the hero of Oregon.; title: The captains of the "American system".