The Jefferson Highway : Blazing the Way from Winnepeg 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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2016]
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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.