Identifier: cu31924024922563 (find matches)
Title: A history of travel in America, being an outline of the development in modes of travel from archaic vehicles of colonial times to the completion of the first transcontinental railroad: the influence of the Indians on the free movement and territorial unity of the white race: the part played by travel methods in the economic conquest of the continent: and those related human experiences, changing social conditions and governmental attitudes which accompanied the growth of a national travel system
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Dunbar, Seymour, 1867-1947
Subjects: Transportation Frontier and pioneer life
Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill Company
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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for the nights sojourn. Then each memberof the expedition fell upon his appointed task. In anincredibly short time — so adept were they in such neces-sary duties — a snug shelter made from the limbs andfoliage of trees was raised for the women and children;horses were relieved of their burdens and tethered; thestock was herded and put under guard; fires were kindled;water brought from a clear stream; huge slabs of venisonwere broiled on ramrods held over the hot coals; cornpones baked, and the days labor was done. The feast wasa royal one, few and simple though its ingredients were,for toil such as theirs and the air they breathed bredappetites whose mere possession was itself a luxury.People did not nibble at dainty luncheons and munchmacaroons in those days; they devoured their food as afireman throws coal into a furnace, and for the identicalreason. What they ate was the fuel that carried them 128 p S 5 IcS H-S 3 CL-. ^ o o -;^ u 0-
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A HISTORY OF TRAVEL IN AMERICA onward. Man himself was the engine at that stage oftravel. After the meal beside the camp-fire the petticoat andjuvenile divisions of the wandering army disappearedbeneath the lean-to. The leather-clad men stretched outtheir long legs around the blazing logs, lit their clay pipesand puffed big clouds of rank tobacco smoke up towardthe stars until they fell asleep, while a few still figures,that almost blended with the shadows amid which theycrouched, sat with rifles ready until another dawn sepa-rated the branches of the trees. No direful happening befell Boones people for twoweeks, and their immunity from attack by Indians up tothat time had gradually — perhaps ,to an extent imper-ceptible to themselves — resulted in a slackening of thosemethods by which danger of the sort was best to beavoided. At any rate, while they were approaching Cum-berland Gap on October 6 the men who were driving thestock allowed themselves to fall behind the main bodyby fi

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