The Jefferson Highway: Blazing the Way from Winnepeg to New Orleans (Iowa and the Midwest Experience)
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (781 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1609384210 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 220 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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Saluting one of the most important of the early named highways on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, historian Lyell D. The most famous of these named highways was the Lincoln Highway between New York City and San Francisco. Called the Jefferson Highway, it eventually followed several routes through Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. 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. That was far from being true in
Great info for history buffs and travelers alike Amazon Customer Great info for history buffs and travelers alike. Thanks, Lyell, and all those who worked on this project with you, for all your hard work.. "Henry has given us a book that is both interesting and fun to read" according to Deke Solomon. Having read Mr. Henry's book through from cover to cover, I cannot decide if The Jefferson Highway: Blazing the Way from Winnipeg to New Orleans is a history posing as travelogue or a travelogue posing as history. But I do know that Lyell D. Henry has given us a book that is both interesting and fun to read, and that's doubly so if the reader is – like this writer – an aging Iowa farm boy still resident in the Hawkeye Sta. JH said Road Trip: An Enthralling Account of a Great American Highway. American road histories are not a genre of nonfiction in the same way that institutional histories or political histories are genres—too few have been written—but the growing number of such tales suggests that may soon have to change. Lyell Henry’s new book The Jefferson Highway: Blazing the Way from Winnipeg to New Orleans adds to the weight of the argument that American road histories are indeed a genre and as suc
They will discover that the Jefferson Highway—the first transcontinental international highway traversing North America from north to south—is alive and well, especially in Iowa, where a century ago the brainchild of a Des Moines publisher became a reality.”— Michael Wallis, author, Route 66: The Mother Road . “Travelers wise enough to shun the monotonous, crowded turnpikes and interstates must read this well-researched book