Roads, in New England, 4, 6, 7; stage, 64; development of, 72; indifference to, 87; national interest in, 92; Braddock’s, 90; Cumberland, 93; Frederick, 93; National, 91, 93, 96; Wilderness (Boone’s trail, Kentucky road, Virginia road, Caintuck Hog road), 127, 149 Roanoke, 134 Robertson, James, goes to Watauga, 137; pacifies the Indians, 139; helps protect the new settlement, 155; founds Nashborough, 163; trusted by the people, 164; portrait, 164; ability, 172 Rochester, N.Y., 25, 52 Rochester, Colonel, 26, 41, 61, 132 “Rolling roads,” 88 Rome, 22, 46, 61 Roosevelt, Theodore, cited, 137, 140, 160 Ross’s Landing, 174 Sails on cars, 105 St. Clair, General, 124 St. Leger, General, 33, 61 Salt, 27, 61, 113 Samp mortars, 21 San Francisco, 109 Saratoga, 38 Schenectady, 19, 42, 47, 61 “Schonowe,” 19 Schuyler, Fort (Utica), 23 Schuyler, Han Yost, 37 Schuylerville, 38 Scotch-Irish, 66, 136 Seneca river, 24 Seneca lake, 25 Settlement: in New England, 4; in New York, 14, 24; in Pennsylvania, 66; in the Ohio country, 117; in Tennessee, 135, 170; in Kentucky, 148 Sevier, John, goes to Watauga, 138; fights on the frontier, 155; plans to attack Ferguson, 160; returns home, 162; portrait, 162; monument to, 165; other honors, 166; on the Tennessee river, 172 Shelby, Isaac, 155, 159, 165 Shelbyville, 165 Shenandoah valley, 88, 107, 130, 132 Sheridan, 133 Shippensburg, Pa., 71 Shreve, Captain, 117 Slate, 104 “Smoky City, The,” 120 South Mountain, Pa., 132 Southern Pacific Railway, 22 Southern Railway, 134, 170 Speed of early trains, 105 Spotswood, Alexander, 129 Springfield, Mass., 6, 10 Stanwix, Fort, 22, 23, 34, 37, 61, 149 Stark, General, 38 Staunton, Va., 135 Steamboats, 118 Stephenson, George, 53 Stillwater, 38 Susquehanna valley, 26, 41, 46, 104 Swift Run Gap, 130 Sycamore Shoals, 160 Sydney, Australia, 109 Syracuse, 27, 52, 57, 61 Tarleton, Colonel, 159 Teamsters of early days, 64, 69 Tennessee, 134, 154, 164, 172; University of, 170 Tennessee river, 134, 142, 163, 167, 172, 174 Ticonderoga, 32, 37, 38 Tidewater country, 87, 130 Timber, 104, 180 Toll houses, 68, 87 Toll rates, 94 _Tom Thumb_, 106 Trails, old, 4, 6, 17, 19, 22, 25, 28, 72 Tramways in England, 54 Transylvania Company, 148 Travel, early, 5, 22, 56, 64, 91 Trow Plat, 23 Trunk line, 57 “Tubal Cain of Virginia,” 129 Tudor, Frederick, 4 Twentieth Century Limited, 56 Union Pacific Railroad, 109 University of Tennessee, 170 Utica, 21, 23, 37, 57, 61 Valley of east Tennessee, 135; of Virginia, 132 Valley, the Great, 71, 130, 132, 134, 136, 139 Valleys as natural roads, 5–7, 16, 17, 22, 24, 26, 31, 41, 126, 133, 142, 152, 156