[24] Dunbar’s “History of Travel,” Vol. I. Roosevelt’s “Winning of the West,” Vol. II.

[25] “The Wilderness Road.”

[26] “A History of Travel in America.”

[27] “Winning of the West.”

[28] Henry Howe.

[29] A pirogue proper is a canoe dug out of a single log. These may have been and probably were keel boats built of timber and the name pirogue extended to them colloquially.

[30] “The Winning of the West,” Vol. VI, by Theodore Roosevelt.

[31] Cf. “Winning of the West,” Vol. VI, p. 259; and “The American Nation,” Vol. XII, p. 94.

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