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CONTENTS I. THE MAN WHO CAUGHT THE VISION II. THE RED MAN'S TRAIL III. THE MASTERY OF THE RIVERS IV. A NATION ON WHEELS V. THE FLATBOAT AGE VI. THE PA… Meer...

CONTENTS I. THE MAN WHO CAUGHT THE VISION II. THE RED MAN'S TRAIL III. THE MASTERY OF THE RIVERS IV. A NATION ON WHEELS V. THE FLATBOAT AGE VI. THE PASSING SHOW OF 1800 VII. THE BIRTH OF THE STEAMBOAT VIII. THE CONQUEST OF THE ALLEGHANIES IX. THE DAWN OF THE IRON AGE X. THE PATHWAY OF THE LAKES XI. THE STEAMBOAT AND THE WEST BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTETHE PATHS OF INLAND COMMERCECHAPTER I. The Man Who Caught The VisionInland America, at the birth of the Republic, was as great a mystery tothe average dweller on the Atlantic seaboard as the elephant was to theblind men of Hindustan. The reports of those who had penetrated thiswilderness--of those who had seen the barren ranges of the Alleghanies,the fertile uplands of the Unakas, the luxuriant blue-grass regions, therich bottom lands of the Ohio and Mississippi, the wide shores of theinland seas, or the stretches of prairie increasing in width beyondthe Wabash--seemed strangely contradictory, and no one had been able topatch these reports together and grasp the real proportions of the giantinland empire that had become a part of the United States. It was apathless desert; it was a maze of trails, trodden out by deer, buffalo,and Indian. Its great riverways were broad avenues for voyagers andexplorers; they were treacherous gorges filled with the plunder of amillion floods. It was a rich soil, a land of plenty; the nativeswere seldom more than a day removed from starvation. Within its broadconfines could dwell a great people; but it was as inaccessible as theinterior of China. It had a great commercial future; yet itsgigantic distances and natural obstructions defied all known means oftransportation.Such were the varied and contradictory stories told by the men who hadentered the portals of inland America. It is not surprising, therefore,that theories and prophecies about the interior were vague andconflicting nor that most of the schemes of statesmen and financiers forthe development of the West were all parts and no whole. They all agreedas to the vast richness of that inland realm and took for granted animmense commerce therein that was certain to yield enormous profits.In faraway Paris, the ingenious diplomat, Silas Deane, writing tothe Secret Committee of Congress in 1776, pictured the OldNorthwest--bounded by the Ohio, the Alleghanies, the Great Lakes, andthe Mississippi--as paying the whole expense of the Revolutionary War.* Thomas Paine in 1780 drew specifications for a State of from twentyto thirty millions of acres lying west of Virginia and south of the OhioRiver, the sale of which land would pay the cost of three years of thewar. ** On the other hand, Pelatiah Webster, patriotic economist that hewas, decried in 1781 all schemes to pawn this vast westward region; helikened such plans to killing the goose that laid an egg every day, inorder to tear out at once all that was in her belly. He advocated thetownship system of compact and regular settlement; and he argued thatany State making a cession of land would reap great benefit from theproduce and trade of the newly created settlements. * Deane's plan was to grant a tract two hundred miles square atthe junction of the Ohio and the Mississippi to a company on thecondition that a thousand families should be settled on it withinseven years. He added that, as this company would be in a great degreecommercial, the establishing of commerce at the junction of those largerivers would immediately give a value to all the lands situated on ornear them. Digital Content>E-books>U.S. History>U.S. History>U.S. History, Library of Alexandria Digital >16<

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