The power of steam was about to invade the West. The day of the flatboat and the dugout canoe was oversavagery must roll back beaten in the unequal strife with civilization and inventive genius. The War of 1812 with England could not disturb the faroff settlements west of the Mississippi. but the close of that struggle and the weight that it lifted from the breasts of the American people. accelerated the wave of progress and immigration. By 1815 a steady stream of American immigrants. mainly from the South. was pouring into the West. This year a road. known as the Boones Lick Road. was surveyed from St. Charles to Old Franklin.
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