The king's best highway the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America
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2010.
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| Edition: | 1st Scribner hardcover ed. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Jaffe, Eric. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The king's best highway : |b the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America / |c Eric Jaffe. |
| 250 | |a 1st Scribner hardcover ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Scribner, |c 2010. | ||
| 300 | |a ix, 322 p. : |b ill., maps ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-309) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 -- The railroad as highway -- The great Boston-New York rivalry -- Toward union -- Barnum, Morgan, and New England's "invisible government" -- 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. | |
| 650 | 1 | |a Transportation |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Boston Post Roads |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Post roads |z Massachusetts |z Boston Region |x History. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Boston (Mass.) |x Relations |z New York (State) |z New York. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Roads |z United States |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social change |z United States |x History. | |
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