FROM TRAIL TO RAILWAY THROUGH THE APPALACHIANS
By ALBERT PERRY BRIGHAM
Professor of Geology in Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y.
12mo, cloth, 188 pages, with maps and illustrations, 50 cents.
This volume is designed to aid the study of American history and geography in the upper grades of grammar and first year of high schools. It gives the story of the great roads across the Appalachians, telling where they are, why they run as they do, and what their history has been. The evolution from Indian trails to modern rapid transit is studied in the Berkshires, along the Hudson and Mohawk, across the uplands from Philadelphia and Baltimore, and through the Great Valley to Tennessee and Kentucky.
The book shows how the waves of migration swept through the passes from the seaboard to the country west of the mountains, and the essential physiographic features of the eastern United States are worked in as a part of the narrative.
William M. Davis, Professor of Geology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.: Brigham's From Trail to Railway is a serviceable example of a class of books that I hope to see increase in number.
Amos W. Farnham, State Normal School, Oswego, N.Y.: From Trail to Railway is written in Professor Brigham's clear and strong way of saying things, and any one who knows the man can feel him as he reads if he cannot see him. The style is well suited to the grades for which the book is written, and the story of pioneer life is one to engage the interest of history and geography pupils alike.