Description: Map shows the chief systems of overland travel and communication during the middle nineteenth century including railroads, stage lines, and trails (Oregon Trail, Spanish Trail, Santa Fe Trail, and the Route of the Forty-niners). The system of western forts protecting the trails is shown.
Source: Nathaniel Wright Stephenson, An American History (Boston, MA: Ginn and Company, 1913) 378
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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