Book ID: CBB001250115

The King's Best Highway: The Lost History of the Boston Post Road, the Route That Made America (2010)

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Jaffe, Eric (Author)


Scribner


Publication Date: 2010
Physical Details: 322 pp.; ill.; maps; bibl.
Language: English

Description On the history of Boston Post Road from colonial times to the present.


Citation URI
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Authors & Contributors
Frank, John E.
Marcham, John
Vondrak, Otto M.
David Marcham
Bang, Robert A.
Reid, Carlton
Journals
William and Mary Quarterly
Journal of the Early Republic
Anthropozoologica
Publishers
Self-published by Robert A. Bang
South Platte Press
DeWitt Historical Society
University Press of Kansas
University of Washington Press
University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Land transportation
Roads and highways
Environmental history
Urban history
Railroads
Automobiles
People
Mather, Cotton
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
21st century
17th century
Places
United States
New York (U.S.)
Boston (Massachusetts, U.S.)
New York City (New York, U.S.)
Westchester County (N.Y.)
Tucumcari, New Mexico
Institutions
Elmira, Cortland and Northern Company
New York, Westchester and Boston Railway
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
New York Central Railroad Company
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