Teaches about steamboats, railroads, and other nineteenth-century advances in transportation through a fictional story about an escaped slave named Joshua.
Traces the history of road travel from the discovery of the wheel to the twenty-first century, and provides information about people and inventions that contributed to road travel progress.
Traces the history of two-wheeled travel from the invention of the first bicycles to the twenty-first century, and provides information about people and inventions that contributed to the advancement of two-wheeled transportation.
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.