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The king's best highway the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America

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Main Author: Jaffe, Eric
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2010.
Edition:1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Subjects:
Transportation > History.
Boston Post Roads > History.
Post roads > Massachusetts > Boston Region > History.
Boston (Mass.) > Relations > New York (State) > New York.
Roads > United States > History.
Social change > United States > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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