The Jefferson Highway: Blazing the Way from Winnepeg to New Orleans

by Lyell D., Jr. Henry

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609384210
• ISBN13: 9781609384210
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"