Download or read book The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History, Vol. 7 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-03 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Indiana Quarterly Magazine of History, Vol. 7: 1911 HE history of any country or nation will show that the arteries which carried the first thrills of civilization into its borders were the waterways. The natural waterways have ever been the first paths of pioneer exploration. America's rivers were thoroughly explored along the Eastern coast for the vain chance Of finding a connection with the Pacific ocean, then unknown. After the early settlers came, they followed the rivers westward as much as they could. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.