The Great Lakes have not been adequately treated. E. Channing and M. F. Lansing's The Story of the Great Lakes (1909) is reliable but deals very largely with the routine history covered by the works of Parkman. J. O. Curwood's The Great Lakes (1909) is stereotyped in its scope but has certain chapters of interest to students of commercial development, as has also The Story of the Great Lakes. The vast bulk of material of value on the subject lies in the publications of the New York, Buffalo, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Chicago Historical Societies, whose lists should be consulted. These publications also give much data on the Mississippi River and western commercial development. S. L. Clemens's Life on the Mississippi (in his Writings, vol. IX, 1869-1909) is invaluable for its graphic pictures of steamboating in the heyday of river traffic. A. B. Hulbert's Waterways of Western Expansion (Historic Highways, vol. IX, 1903) and The Ohio River (1906) give chapters on commerce and transportation. For the beginnings of traffic into the Far West, H. Inman's The Old Santa Fé Trail (1897) and The Great Salt Lake Trail (1914) may be consulted, together with the publications of the various state historical societies of the trans-Mississippi States. Various bibliographies on this general subject have been issued by the Library of Congress. Seymour Dunbar gives a good bibliography in his A History of Travel in America, 4 vols. (1915). The student will find quantities of material in books of travel, in which connection he would do well to consult Solon J. Buck's Travel and Description, 1765-1865 (Illinois State Historical Library Collections, vol. IX, 1914). INDEX A. Adams, J. Q., and internal improvements, 145. Albany, Old Bay Path to, 16; road to Baltimore, 58; Clermont's voyage to, 113. Alexandria (Va.), rival of New York City, 137. Alleghanies, pathways across, 17-19, 116 et seq. Allegheny Portage Railway, 151. American, New York, quoted, 182. Appalachian Mountains, pathways across, 15-21. Arkansas, influence of river trade on, 180. "Army" plan of occupying West, 4. Ashley, fur trader, 186. Audubon, J. J., description of barge journey, 72-73.