Lincoln Highway Companion

Lincoln Highway Companion
Author: Brian Butko
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-05-13
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1461751241

Following the Lincoln Highway today is not too different from what pioneer motorists faced a century ago. Signs and maps can be hard to find and the route isn't always clear. This handy, indispensable glove-compartment guide is the essential key to the entire highway, from California to New York, with carefully charted maps, must-see attractions, and places to eat and sleep that are slices of pure Americana. The book covers the major thirteen states the route passes through, as well as the little-known Colorado loop and the Washington, DC feeder. More than 100 detailed maps of the highway Full-color photos from across the country Recommended stops along the route

Nothing Like It In the World

Nothing Like It In the World
Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2001-11-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780743203173

The story of the men who build the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

American Road

American Road
Author: Pete Davies
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2003-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780805072976

Davies recounts these treacherous travels in a brisk and readable style . . . he has put history, sociology, politics, and human nature into well-tuned balance. The Boston Globe

Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway

Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway
Author: Gladding Effie Price
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2016-06-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781318942732

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

The Lost Continent

The Lost Continent
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2012-09-25
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0385674562

"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.

The Lincoln Highway: The Story of a Crusade That Made Transportation History

The Lincoln Highway: The Story of a Crusade That Made Transportation History
Author: Lincoln Highway Association
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2018-02-24
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781378628959

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Greetings from the Lincoln Highway

Greetings from the Lincoln Highway
Author: Brian Butko
Publisher:
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2005
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Historian Brian Butko follows the highway across 14 states. Memoirs and historic landmarks come to life in full color.

The Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway
Author:
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Total Pages: 264
Release: 1999
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781587291135

"With his lively pen and lyric camera, Mr. Hokanson takes us on a journey of discovery. The open road is, in part, a defining characteristic of this country, and the Lincoln Highway is one of the historic traces ... like the Oregon Trail, the Camino Real, or the National Road. Not just for tourists, the Lincoln Highway accelerated the processes of social mobility, changed our geography, and led inexorably to a new America. This is an important story, well researched and beautifully, perceptively told." -- William L. Withuhn, Curator of Transportation, Smithsonian Institution Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.