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Author: Candy Vyvey Moulton
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780878423156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Roadside History of Wyoming readers will learn about Native Americans who struggled to adapt to many sudden changes, mountain men who braved the wilderness, emigrants who suffered untold hardships, cattle and sheep drovers who took advantage of the ope
Author: Melba Porter Hay
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2002-04-06
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780916968298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublished by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky We have all spied them as we blast down I-75 scanning the roadside for anything of interest or rolled past one while trying to find an elusive gas station in an unfamiliar small town. Perhaps we have even stopped to read one outside the local courthouse. Since 1949, the Kentucky Historical Highway Marker program has erected more than 1,800 markers that highlight the rich diversity of the state's local and regional history as well as topics of statewide, and sometimes national, importance. They provide on-the-spot Kentucky history lessons, depicting subjects as diverse as a seven-year-old boy who served as a drummer in the Revolutionary War to a centuries-old sassafras tree. Roadside History is a key to the markers, enabling travelers to read Kentucky history without stopping to see each marker as they pass. There are two indexes arranged by subject and county.
Author: Candy Moulton
Publisher: Roadside History (Paperback)
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780878423477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis overview of Nebraska history leads both visitors and residents on an in-depth tour of the state's past. Divided into five geographic divisions, the book follows roadways to all the well-known and many lesser-known points of interest. From early French and Spanish explorers to modern agriculture and the ongoing plight of Native Americans, the complete story of Nebraska unfolds here
Author: Donald E. Spritzer
Publisher: Roadside History (Paperback)
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780878423958
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Roadside History series charts a course to the present through carefully selected and thoroughly researched stories relating what we see today with what happened before. Through vivid anecdotes, old photographs, and maps, the Roadside History guides provide entertaining insight into the states they describe.Each state is divided into geographical and historical regions, and each region is described in the context of highways that pass through it. This road log approach helps place modern travelers in the past.Roadside History of Montana goes well beyond cowboy stories to tell of some of Montana's most fascinating people, from the copper kings of Butte to the Freemen of Garfield County.
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Publisher: Caxton Press
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Total Pages: 596
ISBN-13: 9780870045165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDistributed by the University of Nebraska Press for the University of Idaho Press What Happened Here? Travelers interested in history want to know about the history of the sites that they pass in the Evergreen State. Who but veteran author Bill Gulick could write the premier historical travel book on Washington?
Author: Betty Dooley Awbrey
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 543
ISBN-13: 1589797892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of town, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws. This Sixth edition includes more than 100 new historical roadside markers with the actual inscriptions. With this book, travelers relive the tragedies and triumphs of Lone Star history.
Author: Jack Reid
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2020-02-14
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1469655012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBetween the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar activists saw "thumb tripping" as a vehicle for liberation, living out the counterculture's rejection of traditional values. Yet by the time Ronald Reagan, a former hitchhiker himself, was in the White House, the youthful faces on the road chasing the ghost of Jack Kerouac were largely gone—along with sympathetic portrayals of the practice in state legislatures and the media. In Roadside Americans, Jack Reid traces the rise and fall of hitchhiking, offering vivid accounts of life on the road and how the act of soliciting rides from strangers, and the attitude toward hitchhikers in American society, evolved over time in synch with broader economic, political, and cultural shifts. In doing so, Reid offers insight into significant changes in the United States amid the decline of liberalism and the rise of the Reagan Era.
Author: Francis L. Fugate
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780878422722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRoadside History of Oklahoma invites tourists and residents alike to use the state's highways as avenues connecting the present with the past.
Author: Candy Vyvey Moulton
Publisher: Roadside History (Paperback)
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780878425204
DOWNLOAD EBOOKColorado's roads wind through country that is steeped in history, sometimes tracing routes with a histor of their own, from the Santa Fe Trail tot he Million Dollar Highway. But no matter where you roam in this beautiful state, Roadside History of Colorado can guide you. In this delightful volume, award-winning history writer Candy Moulton escorts raders through ancient pueblos, perilous trails, minng boomtowns, and modern ski resorts.
Author: Dan K. Utley
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 1603443444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn History Ahead, Utley and Beeman introduce readers to the famous (Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, The Big Bopper and jazz great Charlie Christian) and the not-so-famous (Elmer "Lumpy" Kleb, Don Pedro Jaramillo and Carl Morene, the "music man" of Schulenburg) who have left their marks on the history of Texas. They visit cotton gins, abandoned airfields, forgotten cemeteries, and former world War II alien detention camps to dig up the little-known and unsuspected narratives that have slipped from the knowledge of the general public.
