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The King's best highway : the lost history of the Boston post road, the route that made America
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The King's best highway : the lost history of the Boston post road, the route that made America / Eric Jaffe.
ISBN
9781416586142 (hc.)
1416586148 (hc.)
9781416586159 (trade pbk.)
1416586156 (trade pbk.)
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Published
New York : Scribner, 2010.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 07, 2020
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-309) and index.
Contents
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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