From Indian Trail to Iron Horse: Travel and Transportation in New Jersey 1620-1860

Wheaton J. Lane

Verlag: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1939

First edition (stated). Hardcover in pale green cloth with spine lettered in dark green. Map endpapers. xviii+ 437 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with 24 plates (one folding) of reproductions of historical documents, maps, and images. Generally very good. No jacket. The classic history of transportation in colonial and state of New Jersey from the earliest days of settlement in the early 17th century to the decades laeding to the Civil War. The author examines early natural pathways through the wilderness, the trails of the Native American tribes who populated New Jersey, the early colonial highways, water transportation by sloop, flatboat and raft; stage boat and wagon. Also covered is the "roadside scene" and economic reconstruction, tollgates and milestone markers, tow paths and planes, the effect of anthracite haulage from the Pennsylvania coal mines, the coming of the railroads. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers E30729

Bibliografische Details

Titel: From Indian Trail to Iron Horse: Travel and ...
Verlag: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Erscheinungsdatum: 1939
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: First edition.