The Jefferson Highway : blazing the way from Winnipeg to New Orleans /

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 con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Henry, Lyell D., 1935- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2016]
Colección:Iowa and the Midwest experience.
Temas:
Express highways > United States > History.
Roads > United States > History.
Roads > Manitoba > History.
Automobile travel > United States.
Autoroutes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Routes > États-Unis > Histoire.
Voyages en automobile > États-Unis.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Transportation.
TRANSPORTATION > Public Transportation.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
Automobile travel
Express highways
Roads
Jefferson Highway > History.
Manitoba
North America > Jefferson Highway (Manitoba and United States)
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: a highway to honor Jefferson
  • Founding the highway
  • Promoting the highway
  • Building the highway
  • Marking the highway
  • Looking for the highway: Minnesota border to Colo
  • Looking for the highway: Colo to Des Moines
  • Looking for the highway: Des Moines to the Missouri border
  • Epilogue: thinking about the highway.

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