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The King's best highway : the lost history of the Boston post road, the route that made America / Eric Jaffe.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781416586142 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 1416586148 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9781416586159 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 1416586156 (trade pbk.)
- Physical Description: ix, 322 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2010.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-309) |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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