(ALABAMA) Lee George S This Chart Shows the Means of Conveya

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(ALABAMA.) Lee, George S. This Chart Shows the Means of Conveyance Through the State of Alabama, Also a View of the Materials for Improvement, to be Used When the People Deem it Necessary. Drawn from the Best Authorities in 1849. Engraving on folio sheet, 11 3/4x15 inches sheet size; partially trimmed, staining and closed tears. Mobile, 1849 [but after]

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Satirical chart showing the track surveyed for the rail-road diminishing into the mountains with a town beyond them. Scenes of the hardship and misfortunes experienced in traveling by wagons fill the foreground. Forsaken carriages, a broken bridge, deep mud and the fact that "an honest team & an energetic driver average ten miles a day" implore for the building of the rail-road and an opening up of the resources of coal, iron, marble, timber, water power and "rich prairie uncultivated for want of roads" that lie in the hills beyond which settlers desperately sought to access.