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The King's best highway : the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America
- Title
- The King's best highway : the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America / Eric Jaffe.
- Author
- Jaffe, Eric.
- Publication
- New York : Scribner, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 322 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Boston (Mass.) > Relations > New York (State) > New York
- Social change > United States > History
- Boston Post Roads > History
- Post roads > New York (State) > New York Region > History
- New York (N.Y.) > Relations > Massachusetts > Boston
- Roads > United States > History
- Post roads > Massachusetts > Boston Region > History
- Transportation > Social aspects > United States > History
- Transportation and state > United States > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-309) and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. 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 -- pt. 2. The railroad as highway -- The great Boston-New York rivalry -- Toward union -- Barnum, Morgan, and New England's "invisible government" -- pt. 3. 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.
- Call Number
- IQN 11-3827
- ISBN
- 9781416586142
- 1416586148
- LCCN
- 2009051453
- OCLC
- 2009051453
- Author
- Jaffe, Eric.
- Title
- The King's best highway : the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America / Eric Jaffe.
- Imprint
- New York : Scribner, 2010.
- Edition
- 1st Scribner hardcover ed.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-309) and index.
- Research Call Number
- IQN 11-3827