Page:Historic highways of America (Volume 16).djvu/125

This page has been validated.
Railroads
INDEX
121


by, 9, 61–63; Ohio River map by, 71; favors immigrants, 12, 93–94.

  • Pyankeshaw's Hunting Ground, 2, 57.
  • Pyatt's, Jacob, 5, 19.
  • RACCOON Ford, 4, 194.
  • Radisson, Mississippi discovered by, 7, 182.
  • Rae (Ray), Forbes states that Raystown was founded by, 5, 92.
  • Rafts of logs on Ohio, 9, 127–129.
  • Ragan's, 11, 127.
  • RAILROADS—
  • In General: Influence of buffaloes on routes of, 1, 79; portage paths as routes of, 7, 81–82; headwaters of Susquehanna reached by, 12, 162; average American farm ten miles distant from, 15, 16; reached limit of growth in America, 16.
  • Names and Data:
    • Allegheny Portage: width of right of way for, 11, 42; significance of, 13, 194–196; Stevenson on, 196; Canvass White proposed, 196; Moncure Robinson plans, 196–197; board of