Transportation

The Transportation American history books series recognizes the ingenuity and determination evident in the history of transportation and commerce.Wind down South Carolina country roads or take a trip up the Beartooth Highway. Board the Georgia Railroad or join the California gold rush by stagecoach. From Connecticut river ferries to the streetcars of Florida’s coast, these American transportation books take readers on a journey through the past to the present. 
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Butterfield's Byway
Butterfield's Byway
$21.99
The Merritt Parkway
The Merritt Parkway
$21.99
The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive
The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive
$21.99
The Lincoln Highway in Iowa
The Lincoln Highway in Iowa
$23.99
Highway 25 in the Carolinas
Highway 25 in the Carolinas
$21.99

Butterfield's Byway

9781626194878

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John Butterfield's mail service connected the East and West Coasts in one of the great entrepreneurial and pioneering stories of the American West. Until 1858, California's gold fields were reached only by horseback, wagon or ship around Cape Horn. Congress decided a 2,800-mile, twenty-five-day stagecoach line would roll from St. Louis to San Francisco. Former Utica, New York mayor Butterfield hired one thousand men and bought 1,200 horses, 600 mules and 250 wagons. Surveying the wilderness, he built roads and two hundred way stations, graded river fords and dug one hundred wells. Join author Melody Groves on a cross-country trip from Missouri to California, and all points in between, as she recounts the Butterfield Stage Line's amazing odyssey.
Butterfield's Byway

The Merritt Parkway

9781626196353

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Decorated with a breathtaking landscape and a treasured collection of diversely styled bridges, the Merritt Parkway runs thirty-seven and a half miles through Fairfield County.

From its complicated beginnings to the present, authors Laurie Heiss and Jill Smyth navigate the hard-fought yet picturesque path of this beloved road. Meet the bridge artist, the landscapers, the politicians and the activists whose involvement in the Merritt transformed Fairfield County from farms and country estates to one of the wealthiest counties in the nation. With the dedication of preservationists and conservationists, the Merritt Parkway today remains both functional and beautiful, holding a unique place in the heart of Connecticut's drivers.

The Merritt Parkway

The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive

9781467135795

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Traversing the spectacular Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming is an unforgettable experience. The unspoiled mountain scenery along the highway inspired famed news correspondent Charles Kuralt to label it "America's most beautiful drive," yet the story behind this engineering marvel is largely unknown. It is an epic account of man versus nature to construct a road through unforgiving wilderness. Built during the height of the Great Depression and rising 10,947 feet above sea level, the Beartooth Highway sparked an economic boom in Red Lodge, Cooke City and Yellowstone National Park. Understandably, it continues to leave a profound impression on people privileged to drive it. Historian Jon Axline tells the exciting and colorful narrative behind the origins and construction of the Beartooth Highway.
The Beartooth Highway: A History of America’s Most Beautiful Drive

The Lincoln Highway in Iowa

9781467149808

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Iowa's Great Highway

Before there was Route 66, there was the iconic Lincoln Highway. A symbol of limitless potential, America’s first coast-to-coast highway spanned Iowa from the Mississippi River to the Missouri River. When you travel U.S. 30 across Iowa today, you’re never far from the historic Lincoln Highway, if not right on top of it. Learn the history of an Iowa landmark.

The Lincoln Highway in Iowa

Highway 25 in the Carolinas

9781467148092

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Discover the history of an ancient road.   Traveling US 25 through the Carolinas today is a much more pleasant experience than it was in the 1700s. Then, the road from the Tennessee Cherokee Towns to Augusta, Georgia, was a Cherokee trading path that followed a bison trace to the navigable port on the Savannah River. Drovers came from as far as Kentucky herding hogs, turkeys and mules. Lowcountry South Carolinians traveled by stagecoach and wagon to the foothills and mountains, staying for months. The Augusta Road, Saluda Gap and Buncombe Turnpike became the Dixie Highway Carolina Division and then the US Route 25 by 1931. Author Anne Peden travels the trading path and concrete highway to explore this fascinating history.
Highway 25 in the Carolinas