Native American trail marker trees : marking paths through the wilderness
(2011)
By:
Downes, Dennis
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
970.00497/DOWNES,D
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
[Buffalo Grove, Ill.] : Chicago's Books Press, [2011]
©2011
©2011
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780979789281, 0979789281
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
Introduction -- Defining the trail marker trees and their importance -- Shaping the trail marker trees -- Illinois -- Wisconsin -- Michigan -- Ontario -- Indiana -- Missouri -- Ohio -- Pennsylvania -- New York -- Southeastern states -- Arkansas -- Texas -- Colorado -- Iowa
America's first "road signs" were trees bent as saplings by the Indians, marking trails. They were part of an extensive land and water navigation system that was in place long before the arrival of the first European settlers