| Author | Hulbert, Archer Butler, 1873-1933.
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| Title | Pilots of the republic; the romance of the pioneer promoter in the middle West by Archer Butler Hulbert ... with sixteen portraits, and illustrative initials by Walter J. Enright.
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| Published | Chicago, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1906.
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| Description | xvi p., 2 ℓ., [21]-368 p. incl. front. 15 port. 21 cm.
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| Formatted Note | Contents: Introductory: The brother of the sword.--Washington: the promoter of western investments.--Richard Henderson: the founder of Transylvania.--Rufus Putnam: the father of Ohio.--David Zeisberger: hero of "the meadow of light".--George Rogers Clark: founder of Louisville.--Henry Clay: promoter of the first American highway.--Morris and Clinton: fathers of the Erie Canal.--Thomas and Mercer: rival promoters of canal and railway.--Lewis and Clark: explorers of Louisiana.--Astor: the promoter of Astoria.--Marcus Whitman: the hero of Oregon.--The captains of the "American system".
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| Subjects | Canals -- United States
Mississippi River Valley -- History.
Northwestern States -- History.
Pioneers -- United States.
Zeisberger, David.
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| LC Card Number | 06-41537 |
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| | WRHS Research Library: F 25 D H912
mq103748: LC class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 59684] |
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