EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

EBookClubs

Read Books & Download eBooks Full Online

Book The Jefferson Highway

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lyell D. Henry
  • Publisher : University of Iowa Press
  • Release : 2016-04-15
  • ISBN : 1609384210
  • Pages : 227 pages

Download or read book The Jefferson Highway written by Lyell D. Henry and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 confronting would-be motorists were not merely bad, they were abysmal, generally accounted to be the worst of those of all the industrialized nations. The plight of the rapidly rising numbers of early motorists soon spawned a “good roads” movement that included many efforts to build and pave long-distance, colorfully named auto trails across the length and breadth of the nation. Full of a can-do optimism, these early partisans of motoring sought to link together existing roads and then make them fit for automobile driving—blazing, marking, grading, draining, bridging, and paving them. The most famous of these named highways was the Lincoln Highway between New York City and San Francisco. By early 1916, a proposed counterpart coursing north and south from Winnipeg to New Orleans had also been laid out. Called the Jefferson Highway, it eventually followed several routes through Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The Jefferson Highway, the first book on this pioneering road, covers its origin, history, and significance, as well as its eventual fading from most memories following the replacement of names by numbers on long-distance highways after 1926. Saluting one of the most important of the early named highways on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, historian Lyell D. Henry Jr. contributes to the growing literature on the earliest days of road-building and long-distance motoring in the United States. For readers who might also want to drive the original route of the Jefferson Highway, three chapters trace that route through Iowa, pointing out many vintage features of the roadside along the way. The perfect book for a summer road trip!

Book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations

Download or read book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971

Download or read book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture--Environmental and Consumer Protection Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 2038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Inventing America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Garry Wills
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2017-02-15
  • ISBN : 0385542836
  • Pages : 440 pages

Download or read book Inventing America written by Garry Wills and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of America's foremost historians, Inventing America compares Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence with the final, accepted version, thereby challenging many long-cherished assumptions about both the man and the document. Although Jefferson has long been idealized as a champion of individual rights, Wills argues that in fact his vision was one in which interdependence, not self-interest, lay at the foundation of society. "No one has offered so drastic a revision or so close or convincing an analysis as Wills has . . . The results are little short of astonishing" —(Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books)

Book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971

Download or read book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1971 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 2066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Jefferson County  Iowa

Download or read book History of Jefferson County Iowa written by Charles J. Fulton and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1968  Hearings Before     90 1  on H R  10509

Download or read book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1968 Hearings Before 90 1 on H R 10509 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970  Program payments made to producers during calendar year 1968  subsidy payments for agricultural exports

Download or read book Department of Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1970 Program payments made to producers during calendar year 1968 subsidy payments for agricultural exports written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mental Health Directory

Download or read book Mental Health Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book DHHS Publication No   ADM

Download or read book DHHS Publication No ADM written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Whole Dry Soybeans  Used as Beans  or Ground  Mashed or Flaked  240 BCE to 2013

Download or read book History of Whole Dry Soybeans Used as Beans or Ground Mashed or Flaked 240 BCE to 2013 written by William Shurtleff and published by Soyinfo Center. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clue

Download or read book Clue written by Galen Blum and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical comedy Book by Peter DePietro. Music by Galen Blum, Wayne Barker and Vinnie Martucci. Lyrics by Tom Chiodo. Based on the Parker Brothers' Board Game. Characters: 5male, 3female Unit set. The internationally popular game is now a fun filled musical which brings the world's best know suspects to life and invites the audience to help solve the mystery: who killed Mr. Boddy, in what room and with what weapon. The audience receives forms to help

Book Duroc Jersey Swine Record

Download or read book Duroc Jersey Swine Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1030 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Livingston s United States Law Register  and Official Directory

Download or read book Livingston s United States Law Register and Official Directory written by John Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1096 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General of Iowa

Download or read book Report of the Adjutant General and Acting Quartermaster General of Iowa written by Iowa. Adjutant General's Office and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America

Download or read book Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America written by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: