The United States of America, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The United States of America, Vol. 2 of 2 Following close in the van of the army and trading posts, but far in the rear of explorers and trappers, came the advance guard of civilisation. Restless hunters, land surveyors, shrewd traders, and small farmers led the way in the march across the conti nent. Protected by Federal troops, these pioneers did not need the individual skill and daring required by Boone and his companions, but the courage to endure privation, illness, and even death was fully as requisite for the men and women who passed the Mississippi. Like some viscous substance, the mass of people ¿owed onward, using the central route of the Cumberland Road and the Ohio River, or the supplementary routes of the Great Lakes on the north and the Cumberland on the south. Civilisa tion advanced at an average rate of more than twenty miles each year. Thrusting long arms of population up the streams and tributaries lying in the direction of progress, skirting lakes, threading valleys, the frontier had advanced in some cases not less than seven hundred miles in the forty years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.