The king's best highway : the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America / Eric Jaffe.

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Main Author: Jaffe, Eric
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Scribner, 2010.
Edition:1st Scribner hardcover ed.
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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. 
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