id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 47351 Hulbert, Archer Butler Pilots of the Republic: The Romance of the Pioneer Promoter in the Middle West .txt text/plain 61805 2529 65 to land in what is now New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, famous National Road running from Cumberland, Maryland, almost to St. Louis was a potent factor in the awakening of the West. it that Washington was surveying lands on the Great Kanawha and Ohio rivers and the Great Lakes by way of the Ohio and its tributaries? known to-day as "Washington's Bottoms," on the Ohio near Wheeling and that New York would not improve her great route to the West (Mohawk Ohio Company played a most important role in the history of the West hand, the Ohio Company could not secure Western land without being needed by generals to guide the armies, by the great land-companies to there were Gratiot, Delafield, Bliss, Bartlett, Hartzell, Colquit, National Stage Company was the most important west of the Ohio River. Baltimore to the West.--The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company's ./cache/47351.txt ./txt/47351.txt