Evolution of the Trace: Natchez Trace history illustrated sheet – Historic Print
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Evolution of the Trace: Natchez Trace history illustrated sheet
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Rather than showing a single scene, this illustrated sheet traces how the Natchez Trace changed over time, from a footpath worn by Native peoples to a route shaped by later travelers. The trail linked the Mississippi River at Natchez with the Cumberland River near Nashville, and for generations it carried traders, travelers and mail riders through the wilderness of what is now Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee. Its dangers were well known, and the death of Meriwether Lewis along the trail in 1809 became one of its best-remembered episodes. Today the Natchez Trace Parkway, a national park road, follows much of the historic corridor, so the sheet is worth reading as a map of a route in use for centuries.
| Original scan | 900 × 613 px |
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| Reference | 00002a |
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