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قراءة كتاب Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals
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Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals
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HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA
VOLUME 1
HISTORIC HIGHWAYS OF AMERICA
VOLUME 1
Paths of the Mound-Building Indians
and Great Game Animals
by
Archer Butler Hulbert
With Maps and Illustrations
THE ARTHUR H. CLARK COMPANY
CLEVELAND, OHIO
1902
COPYRIGHT, 1902
BY
The Arthur H. Clark Company
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
TO
MY FATHER
THIS SERIES OF VOLUMES
IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED
“Je n’aurais point aux Dieux demandé d’autre père.”
CONTENTS
| PAGE | ||
| Preface | 11 | |
| General Introduction | 17 | |
| PART I | ||
| I. | The Comparative Method of Study | 37 |
| II. | Distribution of Mound-building Indians | 43 |
| III. | Early Travel in the Interior | 53 |
| IV. | Highland Location of Archæological Remains | 68 |
| V. | Watershed Migrations | 94 |
| PART II | ||
| I. | Introductory | 101 |
| II. | Range and Habits of the Buffalo | 103 |
| III. | Early Use of Buffalo Roads | 110 |
| IV. | Continental Thoroughfares | 128 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| I. | Archæologic Map of Wisconsin (showing interior location of remains) | 48 |
| II. | Archæologic Map of Ohio (showing interior location of remains) | 52 |
| III. | Archæologic Map of Illinois and Indiana (showing interior location of remains) | 55 |
| IV. | Early Highways on the Watersheds of Ohio | 78 |
PREFACE
Beginning with the first highways of America, the first monograph of the series will consider the routes of the mound-building Indians and the trails of the large game animals, particularly the buffalo, as having set the course of landward travel in America on the watersheds of the interior of the continent. The second monograph will treat of the Indian thoroughfares of America; the third, fourth, and fifth, the three roads built westward during the old French War, Washington’s Road (Nemacolin’s Path), Braddock’s Road, and the Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road. The sixth monograph will be a study of Boone’s Wilderness Road to