[116] “The Story of the Pullman Car,” by Joseph Husband. A. C. McClurg & Company, Chicago, 1917. Cf. _Literary Digest_, February 10, 1923, p. 25. [117] Funk and Wagnalls’ Encyclop. [118] “Special Reports, Streets and Electric Railways,” U. S. Census Bureau (1902). This, of course, was not a practical machine. [119] “American Nation,” Vol. XXIII, 39. [120] U. S. Eleventh Census (1890), “Transportation on Land.” [121] See Maps in Century Dictionary. CHAPTER V THE MODERN WAGON ROAD Gone are the long picturesque lines of emigrant and freight wagons, with their conestogas, their stage coaches, their oxen, their mules and horses; gone are the hospitable inns with their gay and social crowds of happy travelers; gone are the nightly wagon-formed corrals into which the freighter was wont to drive his animals to prevent their stampeding by the wily red-skin; gone are the complacent but slow-going canal barges so plentiful and popular that at the cry of “low bridge,” everybody ducked by reflex action; gone are the floating palaces on the vacillating and changeable waters of the interior river systems; these yesteryear implements of transportation have been all but superseded by more powerful or more speedy instruments. The canals are very frequently but weed-grown scum-covered channels through the soil, while many of the wagon roads are similarly weed-grown or dust-covered lanes on top of the soil. Perhaps a rejuvenation will come. Already the public road shows signs of a more vigorous growth than the world has ever witnessed even in the heyday of road building under the Roman Caesars. [Illustration: © _Underwood and Underwood_ TRANSPORTATION ACROSS DEATH VALLEY A Picturesque Method of Earlier Days.]