Guide to Scenic Highways & Byways

Guide to Scenic Highways & Byways
Author:
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2007
Genre: Automobile travel
ISBN: 1426210140

Describes the scenery, history, and points of interest along three hundred scenic routes across the United States.

National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways

National Geographic Guide to Scenic Highways and Byways
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2007
Genre: Automobile travel
ISBN: 9781426200564

Expanded to include all U.S. designated America's Byways as well as other selected drives in all 50 states, this stunning new edition features unique driving tours through virtually every kind of landscape--spectacular coastlines, mountains, lakes, small towns, ranches and farmlands, islands, bays, and river valleys.

The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest

The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest
Author: Greg Holden
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 542
Release: 2011-04
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1459618319

With its rich literary tradition, the Midwest provides a wealth of opportunities for bibliophiles to retrace the steps of their favorite writers and characters. The Booklover's Guide to the Midwest is a treasure map in book form, pointing the way to the heartland's most interesting literary sites. Walk down the actual Main Street that Sinclair Lewis described in his classic novel, or among the gravestones that inspired Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology. See Laura Ingalls Wilder's ''little House in the Big Woods'' and get lost in the very same cave that Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn explored. Visit Petoskey, Michigan, the setting of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories. Other poets and writers put readers in touch with pond life, sand dune architecture, Native Americans, and the great expanse of the prairie. Descriptions of each states' sites are arranged so that travelers can drive or walk from place to place with ease.

The Old Pike

The Old Pike
Author: Thomas Brownfield Searight
Publisher:
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1894
Genre: Cumberland Road
ISBN:

Highway 50

Highway 50
Author: Jim Lilliefors
Publisher: James Lilliefors
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1993
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781555910730

Documents the author's trip along Highway 50 from Ocean City, Maryland to Sacramento, California.

The National Road

The National Road
Author: Karl B. Raitz
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780801851551

From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for the most part, by U.S. 40 and I-70.).

The National Road and the Difficult Path to Sustainable National Investment

The National Road and the Difficult Path to Sustainable National Investment
Author: Theodore Sky
Publisher: University of Delaware
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2011-07-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1611490219

The National Road is a comprehensive history of the first federally financed interstate highway, an approximately 600-mile span that joined Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. This book covers the road's contribution to the cultural, economic, and administrative history of the United States, its decline during the second half of the nineteenth century, and its revival in the twentieth century in the form of U.S. Route 40. The story of the National Road embraces an account of its building, its constitutional significance, the unique culture that it represented, the movements and trends that transpired across its route, and the symbolic value that it held, and continues to hold, for the American people. Beyond its status as an American heritage symbol, it serves as a forceful reminder that the United States must continue to pursue the goal of sustainable national investment that began with the National Road and comparable projects during the early republic.