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Tontine
- Tontine Coffee House, 14, 60.
- Tonty, 7, 36.
- Topographical Description of the Middle British Colonies, Pownall, quoted, 2, 32, 33.
- Totten, Lieutenant Colonel, outlines route for Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, 13, 78.
- Towns, classic name of New York, 7, 145.
- Trace (buffalo): used by travelers, 1, 111; Walker explores Kentucky on, 112, 113; buffaloes dispute right of way with travelers on, 114, 115; identical with Indian trails, 114; described, 115–119; route of pioneer army, 118, 121, 126; as transcontinental routes, 131; from seaboard to Middle West, 133; ran north and south, 135; influenced Indian migrations, 136; followed by railways, 138; at portages, 139; Limestone Creek to Bryant's Station, 6, 179; across Illinois from Ohio River, 8, 16; across Illinois on watersheds, 34.
- TRAILS (INDIAN)—
- In General: more easily traversed than rivers, 2, 14; impeded, 22; 11, 22–23; not blazed by aborigines, 2, 29; blazed, 6, 62; laid out on buffalo traces, 2, 15; high location of, 15; 12, 197; circuitous in low ground, 2, 20–21; 12, 200–202; description of, 2, 16–19; easily found today, 18–19;
