1. Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals 2. Indian Thoroughfares 3. Washington's Road (Nemacolin's Path): The First Chapter of the Old French War 4. Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers 5. The Old Glade (Forbes) Road: Pennsylvania State Road 6. Boone's Wilderness Road 7. Portage Paths: The Keys of the Continent 8. Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin: The Conquest of the Old Northwest 9. Waterways of Westward Expansion: The Ohio River and Its Tributaries 10. The Cumberland Road 11. Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers: Volume I 12. Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers: Volume II 13. The Great American Canals: Volume I The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal and Pennsylvania Canal 14. The Great American Canals: Volume II The Erie Canal 15. The Future of Road-Making in America: A Symposium 16. Index Archer Hulbert completed a fifteen-part series from 1902-1905 on the historic highways of America, which he distilled into this one volume for the Chronicles of America Series. Project Gutenberg offers thirteen of the fifteen volumes in the historic roads series. We are also missing the sixteenth volume from our collection, which is an index of the other fifteen volumes. Transcriber's Notes Introduction: The Chronicles of America Series has two similar editions of each volume in the series. One version is the Abraham Lincoln edition of the series, a premium version which includes full-page pictures. A textbook edition was also produced, which does not contain the pictures and captions associated with the pictures, but is otherwise the same book. This book was produced to match the textbook edition of the book. We have retained the original punctuation and spelling in the book, but there are a few exceptions. Obvious errors were corrected--and all of these changes can be found in the Detailed Notes Section of these notes. The Detailed Notes Section also includes issues that have come up during transcription. One common issue is that words are sometimes split into two lines for spacing purposes in the original text. These words are hyphenated in the physical book, but there is a question sometimes as to whether the hyphen should be retained in transcription. The reasons behind some of these decisions are itemized. Detailed Notes Section: Chapter 2 On Page 28, pack-saddles was hyphenated between two lines for spacing. The word was used inside a quote, so prior references may not give us the right transcription. However, it is the best information that we have available. On page 22, packsaddle was not hyphenated and appeared in the middle of a line. A word with the same prefix, pack-horse, was consistently spelled with a hyphen. We transcribed the word without the hyphen, because the evidence suggests that the author intended packsaddles without the hyphen, but pack-horse and pack-horsemen with the hyphen.