TRAILS
The primeval highway engineers were deer. Deer, like people, are prone to seek the course of least resistance. If there is a saddle or gap in a mountain ridge, the deer will not climb the steep mountain; he will go through the saddle. He follows the grades of streams and generally seeks the easiest route to the place he wants to go.
The explorer followed deer trails; the trapper followed the explorer; the homesteader followed the trapper—brushing the trail a little wider for his wagon or sled; the township made it into a country road; the county put on it a hard surface; the state covered it with a wide sheet of concrete. Thus, the engineers that blazed the original trails were deer.
