ILLUSTRATIONS

"I . . . Think I Hear The Sound of that Advancing Multitude

Which Soon Shall Fill These Deserts." Frontispiece

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On the Road in Early Days .......... 32

Evansville, Indiana, in Early Days........ 32

The Old Fort at Lexington, Built in 1782...... 33

Cumberland Gap, Tennessee........... 33

The First Portrait of Washington........ 64

Pittsburg in 1790.............. 64

Marker on the Wilderness Road......... 64

Tablet at the Home of Major Arthur St. Clair, Near Greens-burg, Pennsylvania............ 65

Old Fort Guddis, Near Uniontown, Pennsylvania .... 65

Henry Clay Monument at Elm Grove, West Virginia   .   . 65

Floating Down the River........... 112

General Putnam Landing at Marietta....... 112

Two Sections of the Ohio River......... 112

Ohio River from the Summit of Grave Creek Mound    .   . 113

Wabash River, Near Vincennes, Indiana ...... 113

McColloch's Dam, Near Wheeling, 1777....... 113

On the Scent of the Emigrants......... 113

Forty Fort in 1778 .............. 160

On a New York Waterway........... 160

Old Fort Van Rensselaer, Canajoharie, New York .   .   . 161

Chicago in 1820............... 161

The Battle of the Alamo........... 192

Marker on the Santa Fe Trail......... 192

Wagons Parked for the Night.......   .   . 193

Near Fort Defiance, New Mexico......... 193

Caravan on the March............ 224

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