of the fur trade of our North
Upon Fort Orange converged the score of land and water pathways
of the fur trade of our North. These Indian trade routes were
slowly widened into colonial roads, notably the Mohawk and
Catskill turnpikes, and these in turn were transformed into the
Erie, Lehigh, Nickel Plate, and New York Central railways. But
from the day when the canoe and the keel boat floated their bulky
cargoes of pelts or the heavy laden Indian pony trudged the
trail, the routes of trade have been little or nothing altered.