The king's best highway : the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America
2010
388.1 J27 2010
Available at Main Library
Formats
| Format | |
|---|---|
| BibTeX | |
| MARCXML | |
| TextMARC | |
| MARC | |
| DublinCore | |
| EndNote | |
| NLM | |
| RefWorks | |
| RIS | |
Title
The king's best highway : the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Published
New York : Scribner, 2010.
Description
ix, 322 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
388.1 J27 2010
System Control No.
(OCoLC)464593163
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-309) and index.
Contents: From Indian path to post road -- The "ordinary way" -- Of fidelity and fate -- Benjamin Franklin, postman -- Inflammatory papers and tavern politicians -- The general and the blacksmith -- Setting the business in motion -- The railroad as highway -- The great Boston-New York rivalry -- Toward union -- Barnum, Morgan, and New England's "invisible government" -- The nation's road standard -- Colonel Pope and the good roads movement -- "Rocks, ruts, and thank-you-marms" -- Highway Route 1, relocated -- Changing the face of America -- Cruising the BPR.
L2010M139
Contents: From Indian path to post road -- The "ordinary way" -- Of fidelity and fate -- Benjamin Franklin, postman -- Inflammatory papers and tavern politicians -- The general and the blacksmith -- Setting the business in motion -- The railroad as highway -- The great Boston-New York rivalry -- Toward union -- Barnum, Morgan, and New England's "invisible government" -- The nation's road standard -- Colonel Pope and the good roads movement -- "Rocks, ruts, and thank-you-marms" -- Highway Route 1, relocated -- Changing the face of America -- Cruising the BPR.
L2010M139
Added Author
Record Appears in