Q.
Quebec, furs brought to, [20].
Queen of the West (British steamer), [182].
R.
Railroads, [134] et seq.; see also names of railroads.
Revolutionary War, plans for payment of debt of, [2]-[3].
Rhodes, Mayor of Philadelphia, [30].
Rideau canal system, [160].
Rivers and harbors, government policy of improvement, [12]; Chicago convention (1846), [169].
Roads, [44] et seq., [83]; tolls, [59]-[60]; see also Cumberland Road.
Robinson, Moncure, [139]-[140].
Roosevelt, Theodore, quoted, [176].
Rumsey, James, [12]; general manager of Potomac Company, [32]; steamboat experiments, [101], [102], [103], [106]; Virginia grants monopoly to, [106]; Fulton and, [108].
Russell, Majors, and Waddell found Overland Stage Company, [189].
Rutherfordton Trail, [19].
S.
Sacramento, stage line to, [189].
St. Clair (brig), [76].
St. Joseph (Mo.), stage line from, [189].
St. Lawrence canal system, [160].
St. Louis, shipbuilding, [180]; headquarters for fur trade, [186]; trade with Santa Fé, [187].
St. Mary's River Ship Canal, [164], [167], [168].
Salt Lake City, stage line to, [189].
Samson (lake freighter), [169].
Sandusky, port of entry, [74].
San Francisco, Overland Trail to, [189].
San Lorenzo, Treaty of, [75].
Santa Fé, trade with, [187].
Santa Fé Trail, [191].
"Sapphire Country," [19], [152].
Saturday Advertiser, Liverpool, on the Duane, [76]-[77].
Schoph, J. D., crosses mountains in chaise, [66].
Schuylkill-Susquehanna Canal, [35].
Searight describes freight wagons on Cumberland Road, [123]-[124].
Sellers, Captain Isaiah, [182].
Shreve, Henry, builds double-decked steamboat, [79]; invents flat-bottomed steamboat, [175].
Society for Promoting the Improvement of Roads and Inland Navigation, [31], [34]-[35], [39], [54].
South, trade with, [65]; demands for commerce, [174].
Southern Belle (steamboat), [181].
Southern Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, [29].
Southern Railway, [19].
Stanton, E. M., has model of J. M. White, [186].
Stephenson, Robert, on Pennsylvania Canal, [140].
Stevens, E. A., invents twin-screw propeller, [104].
Sublette, fur trader, [186].
Sultana (steamboat), [181].
Superior (steamboat), [156], [167].
Superior, Lake, copper and iron deposits near, [164]; commerce from, [166]-[167].
Susquehanna River, Washington foresees joining to West, [8].
T.
Taverns, [56]-[57], [82]-[83].
Taylor, Acting-Governor of New York, and Erie Canal, [127], [128].
Tennessee, trails to, [19]; cotton exports, [180].
Tennessee Path, Baily on, [96].
Thackeray, W. M., quoted, [135].
Thomas, P. E., and Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, [149].
Thompson, Chief Justice of New York, and Erie Canal, [127].
Toledo (O.), demand for transportation facilities, [164].
"Toledo War," [164]-[165], [194].
Tom Thumb, Peter Cooper's engine, [150].
Transportation, Conestoga wagons, [57]-[58], [86]; steamboats, [100] et seq.; stagecoaches, [122]; "J. Murphy wagons," [190]; see also Canals, Ferries, Horses, Railroads, Roads.
Tupper, General Benjamin, [104].
Twain, Mark, cited, [181].
Tyson, Jonathan, [52].
U.
Unaka Mountains, see Alleghanies.
Union Canal, [35], [139], [151]; see also Pennsylvania Canal.
Union Pacific Railroad, [191], [193].
Uniontown (Penn.), growth of, [26].