Canals : towpaths west
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Portrays the need for improvements in transportation as the U.S. spread westward, and outlines the development of a network of canals to supplement existing river and highway transportation facilities. Uses flashbacks to dramatize the adventures of a boy at his job as a muledriver to portray life along the banks of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal at the time of its greatest use in the 1800's.
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