Historical Highways
I mentioned I liked roads. It's a recurring theme of this blog starting with my cross country drive of my own. I've collected a lot of books on roads. Here's one category of books on the history of roadbuilding and of particular American highways. 1. First Highways of America: A Pictorial History of American Roads and Highways from 1900-1925 , John Butler (1994). A history of the dirt-rock-to-pavement of America's early roads. Fantastic black and white pictures of early cars, road construction and landscapes. Bought new. 2. Coast to Coast by Automobile: The Pioneering Trips, 1899-1908 , Curt McConnell (2000). A collection of early automobile adventures across the the U.S. The appendix includes a great chronology of early automobile trips. Bought new. 3. U.S. 1: America's Original Main Street , Andrew Malcolm, Photographs by Roger Straus III (1991). Sometimes called America's original Main St...