Description:
Family Roots. new. This all-new volume of American migration routes includes 88 maps and 77 routes - up from the 22 routes in the 1997 edition. This book has seven (7) chapters, each illustrating a specific era of American transportation history:Indian Paths to Post Roads (1630-1669)
The King's Highway (1680-1765)
Scots-Irish Wagon Roads (1720-1750)
Trans-Appalachian Trails & Roads (1755-1796)
Roads to the Ohio Country (1787-1818)
Roads of the Old Southwest (1806-1832)
Western Migration Routes (1821-1869)
A 12-page Table of Migration Routes acts as an introduction to the map chapters with road trips, notes, and links to historical references online. Each chapter starts with a locator map and introduction to the historic era.
The migration routes are then enlarged on two side-by-side maps: the left-hand page has the highlighted trace of a migration route on a modern highway map; the right-hand page has the same trace on a county boundary map.
For all states, the Modern Highway Maps were… Read More