Americans on the move

Describes the western migration along the Oregon and California Trails during the nineteenth century.

Traces the history of American roads, from early paths created by the buffalo and the native Americans, to the city streets and highways of today.

Discusses the development and uses of different means of transportation along the great network of rivers in early America.

Looks at the role that stagecoaches and Conestoga wagons played in carrying mail and passengers throughout America, and especially the West, during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Surveys the history of clippers and whaling ships and examines their significance in America's growth as a nation.

A history of railroads in the American West.

Discusses westward expansion prior to the Civil War and the role of the steamboats on the inland rivers in the settlement of the West.

Traces the development of America's early canals, particularly the Erie Canal, which enabled people to travel to places that rivers could not take them.