Taming Big Sky Country : the history of Montana transportation from trails to interstates /
Drives this breathtaking did not come easy. Cruising down Montana's scenic highways, it's easy to forget that traveling from here to there once was a great adventure. The state's major routes evolved from ancient Native American trails into four-lane expressways in a little over a cen...
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Charleston, S.C. :
History Press,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction. Roads to romance: Getting around in Big Sky Country
- Part I. Enterprises of incalculable importance: Montana's early roads
- The Mullan Road
- The Montana Road
- A monument above the water: Parson's Bridge
- The Bozeman trail
- The Northern Overland Route
- Toll roads
- Stagecoach etiquette
- The iron horse transforms Montana's roads
- Part II. Getting Montana out of the mud
- The Montana State Highway Commission
- A new direction
- Modernizing Montana's bridges
- Part III. The Montana Highway Department takes the reins
- The Federal Aid Road Act of 1921
- When Montana's highways had names: The trail associations
- The Good Roads law
- Part IV. Transforming Montana's highways during the dirty thirties
- The Beartooth Highway
- The New Deal
- Howdy everyone! Glad to see you!
- Countdown to war
- Part V. A time of unprecedented construction: The postwar years
- Preparing for peace in a time of war, 1942-1945
- The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944
- From war to peace, 1946-1956
- Funding problems
- The national system of interstate highways
- Montana's white crosses: The roadside fatality markers
- Part VI. Your highway dollars at work: The interstate highways
- The golden age of Montana's interstate system, 1956-1966
- A tough piece of work: Interstate 15 and the Wolf Creek Canyon
- The interstates, 1968-1988
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.