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Show 274 BASIS OF AMERICAN HISTORY [ 1450 ed., 1900) are full of indispensable information. Justin Winsor, Cartier to Frontenac ( 1894) and Westward Movement ( 1898), are also very useful, and F. A. Ogg, The Opening of the Mississippi ( 1904), is a recent work of value. Special studies of importance are E. J. Benton, The Wabash Trade Route ( 1903), G. A. Baker, The St. Joseph- Kankakee Portage, and F. H. Severance, Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier ( 2d ed., 1903). The histories of Park-man and others indicate many of the more important routes in the regions, with the special history of which they deal. For the northern Appalachian routes, B. Willis, The Northern Appalachians ( 1895), is admirable. It is essentially a physiographic monograph, but considers historical relations and contains maps and diagrams. C. W. Hayes, The Southern Appalachians ( 1895), is a companion work to the preceding and is likewise excellent for the southern region. The majority of the important trails, portages, and passes of the east are dealt with in the numerous general histories of the colonies. For the south, besides the works of Hulbert, may be recommended T. Speed, The Wilderness Road ( 1886), and J. S. Johnston, First Explorations of Kentucky ( 1898). For the western routes the following works cover the ground: H. M. Chittenden, The American Fur Trade of the Far West ( 3 vols., 1902), a particularly good account of pioneer trading- posts in the Missouri Valley; E. Coues, History of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 4 vols., 1893), a n authoritative account based on the journals of those explorers; H. Inman, The Old Santa Fe Trail ( 1897), a popular description of that route; ' J. C. Fremont, Narrative of Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, etc. ( 1846); W. H. Emory, Notes of a Military Reconnaissance from Fort Leavenworth in Missouri to San Diego in California ( 1848), an invaluable record of the work of the topographical engineers in their explorations in the Rocky Mountains and the southwest; and the historical works of H. H. Bancroft, History of California ( 7 vols., 1884- 1890), History of the Northwest |