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<jats:p>AcknowledgmentsNote on Maps1. Ways of Moving: Infrastructure for EmpirePart I: Colonial Pathways2. Muddy Paths and Streams: The English Colonies and Transportation to the 1670s3. From Warriors' Paths to Wagon Roads: Transportation in the 1670s–1740sPart II: Wars and Upheaval4. "Yet I Shall Go More Surely": Roads and the French and Indian War, 1754-17665. Revolutionary Expansion: Transportation and the Frontier in the American War of IndependencePart III: New Pathways6. Visions of Expansion: The Internal Improvements Debate and Native American Dispossession7. Indian Removal and Transportation in the Old Northwest8. Indian Removal and Transportation in the Old SouthwestEpilogue and Conclusions: "You Are as Much Worthy of Pity as We Are"Abbreviations in NotesNotesBibliographyIndex</jats:p>