John Mullan: The Tumultuous Life of a Western Road Builder

by Keith C. Petersen

John Mullan's celebrated construction project--a 625-mile link that connected the Missouri and Columbia rivers--established the West Point graduate as an accomplished road builder. After completing the West's first engineered highway at age thirty-two, he lived for nearly another half century, a period of dynamic change. When he died in 1909, automobiles were making their initial crossings along the route he engineered, and his arterial eventually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874223210
• ISBN13: 9780874223217
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Washington State University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"