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The Jefferson Highway. Blazing the Way from Winnipeg to New Orleans.
Lyell D. Henry
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Paperback. Series Editor(s): Friedricks, William B. Series: Iowa and the Midwest Experience. Num Pages: 220 pages, 65 black & white photographs, 3 maps, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBTB; KNG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
Today American motorists can count on being able to drive to virtually any town or city in the continental United States on a hard surface. That was far from being true in the early twentieth century, when the automobile was new and railroads still dominated longdistance travel. Then, the roads confronting would-be motorists were not merely bad, they were abysmal, generally accounted to be the worst of those of all the industrialized nations.
The plight of the rapidly rising numbers of early motorists soonspawned a “good roads” movement that included many efforts to build and pave long-distance, colorfully named ... Read more
Today American motorists can count on being able to drive to virtually any town or city in the continental United States on a hard surface. That was far from being true in the early twentieth century, when the automobile was new and railroads still dominated longdistance travel. Then, the roads confronting would-be motorists were not merely bad, they were abysmal, generally accounted to be the worst of those of all the industrialized nations.
The plight of the rapidly rising numbers of early motorists soonspawned a “good roads” movement that included many efforts to build and pave long-distance, colorfully named ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Series
Iowa and the Midwest Experience
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609384210
SKU
V9781609384210
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About Lyell D. Henry
Lyell D. Henry Jr is emeritus professor of political science at Mount Mercy University, USA where he taught from 1982 until retiring in 1999. He is the author of two earlier books: Zig-Zag-and-Swirl: Alfred W. Lawson’s Quest for Greatness (Iowa, 1991) and Was This Heaven? A Self-Portrait of Iowa on Early Postcards (Iowa, 1995). He lives in Iowa City, Iowa, ... Read more
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