Part of a series of detailed reference manuals on American economic history, this volume traces the development and rapid growth of transportation across the US

A history of steamboats and railroads in the United States prior to the Civil War. In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in the United Sta

A History of the Transportation Revolution covers the history of the evolution of major modes of human transportation. The book provides interesting events in t

Explores the beginnings of modern transportation in the nineteenth century, when the influx of immigrants required better roads, safe water routes, and railroad