Download or read book Report Upon the Construction and Maintenance of Military and Post Roads Bridges and Trails Alaska written by United States. Alaska Road Commission and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The imperial guide with picturesque plans of the great post roads written by James Baker (topographer.) and published by . This book was released on 1802 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report Upon the Construction and Maintenance of Military and Post Roads Bridges and Trails Alaska written by United States. Board of Road Commissioners for Alaska and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roads written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transportation and Distribution of Mails on Motor vehicle Routes written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Good Roads written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The King s Best Highway written by Eric Jaffe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A VIVID AND FASCINATING LOOK AT AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE COUNTRY’S MOST STORIED HIGHWAY, THE BOSTON POST ROAD During its evolution from Indian trails to modern interstates, the Boston Post Road, a system of over-land routes between New York City and Boston, has carried not just travelers and mail but the march of American history itself. Eric Jaffe captures the progress of people and culture along the road through four centuries, from its earliest days as the king of England’s “best highway” to the current era. Centuries before the telephone, radio, or Internet, the Boston Post Road was the primary conduit of America’s prosperity and growth. News, rumor, political intrigue, financial transactions, and personal missives traveled with increasing rapidity, as did people from every walk of life. From post riders bearing the alarms of revolution, to coaches carrying George Washington on his first presidential tour, to railroads transporting soldiers to the Civil War, the Boston Post Road has been essential to the political, economic, and social development of the United States. Continuously raised, improved, rerouted, and widened for faster and heavier traffic, the road played a key role in the advent of newspapers, stagecoach travel, textiles, mass-produced bicycles and guns, commuter railroads, automobiles—even Manhattan’s modern grid. Many famous Americans traveled the highway, and it drew the keen attention of such diverse personages as Benjamin Franklin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, P. T. Barnum, J. P. Morgan, and Robert Moses. Eric Jaffe weaves this entertaining narrative with a historian’s eye for detail and a journalist’s flair for storytelling. A cast of historical figures, celebrated and unknown alike, tells the lost tale of this road. Revolutionary printer William Goddard created a postal network that united the colonies against the throne. General Washington struggled to hold the highway during the battle for Manhattan. Levi Pease convinced Americans to travel by stagecoach until, half a century later, Nathan Hale convinced them to go by train. Abe Lincoln, still a dark-horse candidate in early 1860, embarked on a railroad speaking tour along the route that clinched the presidency. Bomb builder Lester Barlow, inspired by the Post Road’s notorious traffic, nearly sold Congress on a national system of expressways twenty-five years before the Interstate Highway Act of 1956. Based on extensive travels of the highway, interviews with people living up and down the road, and primary sources unearthed from the great libraries between New York City and Boston—including letters, maps, contemporaneous newspapers, and long-forgotten government documents—The King’s Best Highway is a delightful read for American history buffs and lovers of narrative everywhere.

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Download or read book The Road written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A searing, post-apocalyptic novel about a father and son's fight to survive, this "tale of survival and the miracle of goodness only adds to McCarthy's stature as a living master. It's gripping, frightening and, ultimately, beautiful" (San Francisco Chronicle). • From the bestselling author of The Passenger A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, "each the other's world entire," are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Download or read book Interstate Highway System written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Short History of Roads and Highways written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the first rude ridgeways to the modern interstate highway, the evolution of the road is a fascinating story. Readers will learn the progression of roads from the first ridgeways, roads in the ancient world, Roman roads and the development of the revolutionary McAdam Road. American Indians developed an extensive system of trails for both trade and war. The pioneers used parts of these trails to blaze the first traces that penetrated the interior of the developing United States. Readers can also follow the progression of the United States highway system from the first named highways to the modern interstate system of roads first established in the late 1950's. pioneer, native american, trails, traces, united states, indian, early

Download or read book Hearings Before the Committee on Roads House of Representatives written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Roads and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book House Documents written by USA House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some vols. include supplemental journals of "such proceedings of the sessions, as, during the time they were depending, were ordered to be kept secret, and respecting which the injunction of secrecy was afterwards taken off by the order of the House."