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  title info:
    title: America's first interstate
    sub title: the National Road, 1806-1853
  name:
    name part: Pickenpaugh, Roger
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ohu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 210 pages, 8] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The National Road was the first major improved highway in the United States built by the federal government. Built between 1811 and 1837, this 620-mile road connected the Potomac and Ohio Rivers and was the main avenue to the West. Roger Pickenpaugh's comprehensive account is based on detailed archival research into documents that few scholars have examined, including sources from the National Archives, and details the promotion, construction and use of this crucially important thoroughfare. America's First Interstate looks at the road from the perspective of westward expansion, stagecoach travel, freight hauling, livestock herding and politics of construction as the project goes through changing presidential administrations. Pickenpaugh also describes how states assumed control of the road once the US government chose to abandon it, including the charging of tolls. His data-mining approach, revealing technical details, contracting procedures, lawsuits, charges and countercharges, local accounts of travel and services along the road, provides a wealth of information for scholars to more critically consider the cultural and historical context of the Road's construction and use. While most of America's First Interstate covers the early days during the era of stagecoach and wagon traffic, the story continues to the decline of the road as railroads became prominent, its rebirth as US Route 40 during the automobile age and its status in the present day.
  note: Roger Pickenpaugh.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-202) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    geographic: Cumberland Road
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Roads
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    geographic: United States Highway 40
    topic: History
  classification: HE356.C8 P48 2020
  classification: 388.10973
  identifier: 9781606353974
  identifier: 1606353977
  identifier: 9781631014055
  identifier: 9781631014062
  identifier: 2019054934
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 191206
    record change date: 20201020070911.0
    record identifier: in00004099828