Memorial of Henry O'Rielly concerning military highways or "stockade routes" for protecting travelers and settlers, facilitating mail and telegraph communication through vast interior territories, and rendering the United States independent of foreign countries for transmitting mails between the Atlantic and Pacific states

35-1Military Affairs and the MilitiaMemorial of H. O'Rielly. [935] Military highways and telegraph to the Pacific; extinguishment of Indian title to a strip of land five miles on either side of a telegraph line or railroad; line of forts 20 miles apart; Blackfoot Indians.1858-