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Lyell D. Henry Jr The Jefferson Highway (Paperback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Jefferson Highway : Blazing the Way from Winnepeg to New Orleans
- Publication Name
- The Jefferson Highway
- Title
- The Jefferson Highway
- Subtitle
- Blazing the Way from Winnipeg to New Orleans
- Contributor
- William B. Friedricks (Series edited by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781609384210
- ISBN
- 9781609384210
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Genre
- Technology & Engineering, Travel, Transportation, History
- Topic
- Civil / Highway & Traffic, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, IL, in, Ks, MI, MN, MO, Nd, Ne, OH, Sd, Wi), Automotive / General, Essays & Travelogues, Civil / General
- Release Date
- 30/04/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Length
- 9in
- Item Weight
- 10.1 Oz
- Series
- Iowa and the Midwest Experience
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 220 Pages
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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 long-distance 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 soon spawned a "good roads" movement that included many efforts to build and pave long-distance, colorfully named auto trails across the length and breadth of the nation. Full of a can-do optimism, these early partisans of motoring sought to link together existing roads and then make them fit for automobile driving--blazing, marking, grading, draining, bridging, and paving them. The most famous of these named highways was the Lincoln Highway between New York City and San Francisco. By early 1916, a proposed counterpart coursing north and south from Winnipeg to New Orleans had also been laid out. Called the Jefferson Highway, it eventually followed several routes through Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The Jefferson Highway , the first book on this pioneering road, covers its origin, history, and significance, as well as its eventual fading from most memories following the replacement of names by numbers on long-distance highways after 1926. Saluting one of the most important of the early named highways on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, historian Lyell D. Henry Jr. contributes to the growing literature on the earliest days of road-building and long-distance motoring in the United States. For readers who might also want to drive the original route of the Jefferson Highway, three chapters trace that route through Iowa, pointing out many vintage features of the roadside along the way. The perfect book for a summer road trip
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Publisher
University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
1609384210
ISBN-13
9781609384210
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219201948
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jefferson Highway : Blazing the Way from Winnepeg to New Orleans
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Civil / Highway & Traffic, United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, IL, in, Ks, MI, MN, MO, Nd, Ne, OH, Sd, Wi), Automotive / General, Essays & Travelogues, Civil / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Technology & Engineering, Travel, Transportation, History
Number of Pages
220 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Te25.5.J44h46 2016
Reviews
"Despite their importance, the old'named auto 'trails' are largely forgotten. Historian Lyell Henry has turned his formidable talents to one of the most influential, the Pine to Palm road from Winnipeg to New Orleans. Anyone embarking upon his Jefferson Highway is in for a splendid ride!"--Max J. Skidmore, author, Moose Crossing: Portland to Portland on the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, "Travelers wise enough to shun the monotonous, crowded turnpikes and interstates must read this well-researched book. They will discover that the Jefferson Highway--the first transcontinental international highway traversing North America from north to south--is alive and well, especially in Iowa, where a century ago the brainchild of a Des Moines publisher became a reality."-- Michael Wallis, author, Route 66: The Mother Road, "Despite their importance, the old?named auto 'trails' are largely forgotten. Historian Lyell Henry has turned his formidable talents to one of the most influential, the Pine to Palm road from Winnipeg to New Orleans. Anyone embarking upon his Jefferson Highway is in for a splendid ride!"--Max J. Skidmore, author, Moose Crossing: Portland to Portland on the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, "Travelers wise enough to shun the monotonous, crowded turnpikes and interstates must read this well-researched book. They will discover that the Jefferson Highway--the first transcontinental international highway traversing North America from north to south--is alive and well, especially in Iowa, where a century ago the brainchild of a Des Moines publisher became a reality."-- Michael Wallis, author, Route 66: The Mother Road , "Despite their importance, the old'named auto 'trails' are largely forgotten. Historian Lyell Henry has turned his formidable talents to one of the most influential, the Pine to Palm road from Winnipeg to New Orleans. Anyone embarking upon his Jefferson Highway is in for a splendid ride!"--Max J. Skidmore, author, Moose Crossing: Portland to Portland on the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-033816
Dewey Decimal
388.12209777
Series
Iowa and the MidWest Experience Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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