“Indispensable to every future historian of the Seven Years’ War in America.... The cartography of the campaign has been largely supplemented by Mr. Doughty’s discoveries.... The mechanical features of these volumes deserve high praise.”—New York Evening Post.
“Merits the thanks of all those interested in probably the most famous incident of our history.”—Sir John G. Bourinot, K.C.M.G., LL.D., Litt.D.
“A hundred and one writers have treated this well-worn subject, but it has been left for Messrs. Doughty and Parmelee to go over the whole ground and present us with a final and authoritative record.”—The Daily Chronicle, London, England.
“The bare title hardly conveys an idea of the interesting lore embraced in this admirably carried out study of the roads and their part in the development of the country.”—Boston Globe.
The Historic Highways of America
by Archer Butler Hulbert
A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion.
Comprising the following volumes:
- I—Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals.
- II—Indian Thoroughfares.
- III—Washington’s Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War.
- IV—Braddock’s Road.
- V—The Old Glade (Forbes’s) Road.
- VI—Boone’s Wilderness Road.
- VII—Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent
- VIII—Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin.
- IX—Waterways of Westward Expansion.
- X—The Cumberland Road.
- XI, XII—Pioneer Roads of America, two volumes.
- XIII, XIV—The Great American Canals, two volumes.
- XV—The Future of Road-Making in America.
- XVI—Index.
Sixteen volumes, crown 8vo, cloth, uncut, gilt tops. A limited edition only printed direct from type, and the type distributed. Each volume handsomely printed in large type on Dickinson’s hand-made paper, and illustrated with maps, plates, and facsimiles.