Wow so that Wolfram Alpha thing is good for something huh? :D Still, the raw numbers don't paint an accurate picture of what the early US was like. Consider

Wow so that Wolfram Alpha thing is good for something huh? :D Still, the raw numbers don't paint an accurate picture of what the early US was like. Consider this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Franklin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_Franklin Tennessee was once considered to be "the West". Gives you an idea of how settled the country was at the time, and the difficulty of crossing the Appalachians in those times.