Transportation Life on the Prairie
Click here for our How to Get from Here to There in the 1800’s story.
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Notice the early version of the Bar-B-Q grill at the left |
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A more luxurious travel was by stagecoach if you could stand the close quarters, smell and conversation of your fellow travelers |
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Many travelers made their way by foot and horseback on the Chisholm Trail. See map on left side. |
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Then came the opening of the transcontinental railroad |
Fun Facts:
1804 - Lewis & Clark begin exploring the American northwest
1805 - Lewis & Clark reach the Pacific Ocean
1806 - Explorer Zebulon Pike is sent west to descend the Red River
1811 - The building of the first U.S. federal highway, the National Road
begins in Maryland
1817 - The construction of the Erie Canal begins in NY state
1818 - Sir John Ross sails in search of the Northwest Passage
1820 - Stephen H Long explores the Rocky Mountain region
1821 - The original Santa Fe Trail
1825 - Mountain man James Bridger discovers the Great Salt Lake
1827 - Mountain man Jeddah Smith pioneers an overland route to California
1842 - Explorer John C Fremont begins surveying the Oregon Trail
1843 - First Oregon Trail travelers
1845 - Sir John Franklin leads an ill-fated expedition in search of the
Northwest Passage
1846 - The Donner party dies on the California Trail
1849 - The new Santa Fe Trail
1850 - The first railroad travel lines are laid
1860 - The Pony Express begins
1869 - The transcontinental railroad is completed at Promontory Point,
Utah
1897 - The first U.S. subway opens in Boston
