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Author : Lincoln Highway Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Lincoln Highway Association and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official history of the Lincoln Highway Association. cf. Pref.
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Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : LINCOLN HIGHWAY. ASSOCIATION
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ISBN 13 : 9781033125847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (258 download)
Download or read book LINCOLN HIGHWAY written by LINCOLN HIGHWAY. ASSOCIATION and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lincoln Highway Association
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781332744084
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Lincoln Highway Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lincoln Highway: The Story of a Crusade That Made Transportation History When man made use of natural or unimproved means of transportation only, his progress socially and culturally was slow; when he developed mechanical means of moving from place to place, it was accelerated. The modern highway and its complement, the auto mobile, together represent the broadest means oi land transportation yet attained. It is impossible to separate these two factors; the automobile is worthless without the improved road and the road is of limited value without the automobile. Together, they have lengthened the span of average life appreciably. They have reduced the amount of time we must spend in travel. They have emancipated man from provincialism. They have given him quick and easy means of direct contact with distant communities. They have opened up to him, for business or enjoy ment, thousands of square miles of country, educated him to the healthfulness of outdoor travel and recrea tion, enabled him to live amid more healthful sur roundings at no sacrifice of convenience. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author : Lincoln Highway Association
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (79 download)
Download or read book Lincoln Highway, [and Many Other Pamphlets Concerning It]. written by Lincoln Highway Association and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jan Shupert-Arick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738561080
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (61 download)
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway Across Indiana written by Jan Shupert-Arick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lincoln Highway across Indiana explores Indiana's unique role in Lincoln Highway history and celebrates Indiana's place in early automotive and road-building history. Once known as the "Main Street of America," the Lincoln Highway route was established across northern Indiana in 1913, linking larger cities--Fort Wayne, Elkhart, Goshen, South Bend, LaPorte, and Valparaiso--to smaller communities. Most Lincoln Highway towns renamed their main streets Lincolnway in recognition of the nation's first coast-to-coast auto road. When the Lincoln Highway Association shortened the route in 1926, the route linked Fort Wayne to Columbia City, Warsaw, and Plymouth, giving the state two Lincoln Highway routes. From Fort Wayne to the famous Ideal Section, between Dyer and Schererville, Indiana's Lincolnway towns remain proudly connected to Lincoln Highway history. Through vintage photographs, postcards, advertisements, and other historical records, this armchair tour of the highway visits sites favored by early tourists, documents the people and places that made the highway a vital corridor, and celebrates Hoosier Carl Fisher's leadership in the formation of the Lincoln Highway Association, as well as the people who work to preserve its legacy today.
Author : David A. Belden
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439644438
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway Across Illinois written by David A. Belden and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12-09 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From southern Cook County to the Mississippi River, the Lincoln Highway meanders through many of Chicago’s suburbs before heading west through Illinois’s fertile farmland. America’s first transcontinental highway once stretched nearly 3,400 miles from New York City to San Francisco. The story of the highway’s role in shaping the contemporary American highway system is one that examines the interaction of technology and human spirit. Conceived by entrepreneur Carl G. Fischer in 1912 and endorsed by businessman Henry B. Joy, the idea of creating an automobile-friendly roadway spanning America would soon change the nature of travel in the 20th century. Lincoln Highway in Illinois defines and describes the role of the highway as it zigzags its way across the “Land of Lincoln” and highlights the cities, towns, and rural communities along its route.
Author : Peter B. Dedek
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826341950
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Hip to the Trip written by Peter B. Dedek and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before and since its official closure in 1985, historic U.S. 66 became associated with the deserts, Indians, and cowboys of the Southwest, the "Okies" of the Great Depression, and the millions of vacationers who took to the highway in their streamlined automobiles and found adventure on the open road from the late 1940s to the 1970s. Route 66 has such name recognition that in the past twenty years it has been used to advertise products ranging from blue jeans, to root beer, to automobiles. The highway enjoyed only about thirty years of dominance as a primary auto and truck route from 1926 to around 1956. Gradually replaced by interstates into the 1980s, Route 66 became forever fixed in the history and lore of the Southwest and the United States. Route 66 provides a unique vantage point from which to better understand American popular culture from the 1920s to the present. The purpose of this book is not to simply recount the history of Route 66, but to create a comprehensive portrait of the cultural meaning of the highway. What was Route 66 at its pinnacle, what is it today, and what might it become in the future?
Author : Brian Butko
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 081174826X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Brian Butko and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully revised and updated edition. Filled with all-new vintage postcards and photos. Maps for travelers following the original route.
Author : Brian Butko
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493041681
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Greetings from the Lincoln Highway written by Brian Butko and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lincoln Highway was the first continuous road to connect the coasts, allowing newly motorized Americans to cross the country by car. This book allows readers to travel across 100 years of the highway, from New York City to San Francisco, with stops at historic landmarks, bridges, taverns, movie palaces, diners, gas stations, ice cream stands, tourist cabins, and roadside attractions. Color maps and stories of the highway take readers through 14 states, with excerpts from memoirs and old postcards giving a feel for what early motoring was like--the good, the bad, and the muddy. The book is organized by state, with narrative information on what the original Lincoln Highway crossed through. There are historical tidbits and nostalgic details, along with information on what remains. This book is a useful treasure for travel planning and armchair reading.
Author : Andrew Vogel
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031511794
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893–1921 written by Andrew Vogel and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter J. Blodgett
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149779
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Motoring West written by Peter J. Blodgett and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-11 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first years of the twentieth century, motoring across the vast expanses west of the Mississippi was at the very least an adventure and at most an audacious stunt. As more motorists ventured forth, such travel became a curiosity and, within a few decades, commonplace. For aspiring western travelers, automobiles formed an integral part of their search for new experiences and destinations—and like explorers and thrill seekers from earlier ages, these adventurers kept records of their experiences. The scores of articles, pamphlets, and books they published, collected for the first time in Motoring West, create a vibrant picture of the American West in the age of automotive ascendancy, as viewed from behind the wheel. Documenting the very beginning of Americans’ love affair with the automobile, the pieces in this volume—the first of a planned multivolume series—offer a panorama of motoring travelers’ visions of the burgeoning West in the first decade of the twentieth century. Historian Peter J. Blodgett’s sources range from forgotten archives to company brochures to magazines such as Harper’s Monthly, Sunset, and Outing. Under headlines touting adventures in “touring,” “land cruising,” and “camping out with an automobile,” voices from motoring’s early days instruct, inform, and entertain. They chart routes through “wild landscapes,” explain the finer points of driving coast to coast in a Franklin, and occasionally prescribe “touring outfits.” Blodgett’s engaging introductions to the volume and each piece couch the writers’ commentaries within their time. As reports of the region’s challenges and pleasures stirred interest and spurred travel, the burgeoning flow of traffic would eventually and forever alter the western landscape and the westering motorist’s experience. The dispatches in Motoring West illustrate not only how the automobile opened the American West before 1909 to more and more travelers, but also how the West began to change with their arrival.
Author : Hal K. Rothman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816536848
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Reopening the American West written by Hal K. Rothman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a good look at the American West and you'll see that the frontier is undergoing constant changes—not only changes made to the land but also changes in attitudes about the land held by the people who live there. In this book Mike Davis, Stephen Pyne, William deBuys, Donald Worster, Dan Flores, and others re-examine the relationship between people and the environment in the American West over five hundred years, from the legacy of Coronado's search for the Cities of Gold to the social costs of tourism and gaming inflicted by modern adventurers. By exploring places in the West, aspects of the region's past, and ways of understanding some of its pressing issues, the authors foster a better understanding of how people interact and perceive land. Reopening the American West takes a fresh approach to the history of the region, examining the premises of earlier scholars as well as those who have redefined the study of the West over the past two decades. It combines provocative essays with insightful analyses to address issues that are representative of the West in the twentieth century—multiculturalism, water issues, resource exploitation—and to reopen the West for all readers interested in new ways of looking at its wide-open spaces. Contents: Places Dreams of Earth, William deBuys Environmentalism and Multiculturalism, Dan L. Flores Pyre on the Mountain, Stephen J. Pyne Las Vegas Versus Nature, Mike Davis Pasts The Legacy of John Wesley Powell, Donald Worster Pokey’s Paradox: Tourism and Transformation on the Western Navajo Reservation, Hal K. Rothman Negotiating National Identity: Western Tourism and "See American First," Marguerite Schaffer Understanding Place Humanists at the Headgates, Helen Ingram Tapping the Rockies: Resource Exploitation and Conservation in the Intermountain West, Char Miller The Meaning of Place: Reimagining Community in a Changing West, Robert Gottlieb
Author : Pete Davies
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466862823
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book American Road written by Pete Davies and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating account of the greatest road trip in American history. On July 7, 1919, an extraordinary cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey. Their goal was California, and ahead of them lay 3,250 miles of dirt, mud, rock, and sand. Sixty-two days later they arrived in San Francisco, having averaged just five miles an hour. Known as the First Transcontinental Motor Train, this trip was an adventure, a circus, a public relations coup, and a war game all rolled into one. As road conditions worsened, it also became a daily battle of sweat and labor, of guts and determination. American Road is the story of this incredible journey. Pete Davies takes us from east to west, bringing to life the men on the trip, their trials with uncooperative equipment and weather, and the punishing landscape they encountered. Ironically one of the participants was a young soldier named Dwight Eisenhower, who, four decades later, as President, launched the building of the interstate highway system. Davies also provides a colorful history of transcontinental car travel in this country, including the first cross-country trips and the building of the Lincoln Highway. This richly detailed book offers a slice of Americana, a piece of history unknown to many, and a celebration of our love affair with the road.
Author : Marguerite Shaffer
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588343855
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book See America First written by Marguerite Shaffer and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In See America First, Marguerite Shaffer chronicles the birth of modern American tourism between 1880 and 1940, linking tourism to the simultaneous growth of national transportation systems, print media, a national market, and a middle class with money and time to spend on leisure. Focusing on the See America First slogan and idea employed at different times by railroads, guidebook publishers, Western boosters, and Good Roads advocates, she describes both the modern marketing strategies used to promote tourism and the messages of patriotism and loyalty embedded in the tourist experience. She shows how tourists as consumers participated in the search for a national identity that could assuage their anxieties about American society and culture. Generously illustrated with images from advertisements, guidebooks, and travelogues, See America First demonstrates that the promotion of tourist landscapes and the consumption of tourist experiences were central to the development of an American identity.
Author : Martin T. Olliff
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319557
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Getting Out of the Mud written by Martin T. Olliff and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When roads were bad -- Alabamians become wide-awake to good roads -- State highways take the lead -- Peering beyond the state's boundaries: named trails and interstate highways -- Laying the foundation for a modern highway system -- Alabama administers its highway program
