A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day (1881) (14581881129)

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Title: A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Cincinnati, Philadelphia (etc.) Jones brothers & company San Francisco, A. L. Bancroft & co.

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power, enterprise, and genius of the American peo-ple were revealed, as never before, in establishing and extending thelines of travel and commerce. In 1830 there were but twenty-threemiles of railway track in the New World. In 1840 the lines in theUnited States had been extended to two thousand eight hundred andeighteen miles. Ten years later there were nine thousand and twenty-one miles of track. According to the reports for 1860, the railroadsof the country had reached the enormous extent of thirty thousandsix hundred and thirty-five miles; and in the next ten years, embrac-ing the period of the civil war, the amount was nearly doubled. Suchis the triumphant power of free institutions—the victory of free enter-prise, free industry, free thought. There stands the fact! Let theadherents of the Old Worlds methods, the eulogists of the past, takeit and read it. Wherever the human race pants for a larger activity,a more glorious exercise of its energies, let the story be told how the
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