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Historic Highways of America, multi-volume series by Archer Butler Hulbert
According to Wikipedia: "Archer Butler Hulbert (26 Jan 1873 – 24 Dec 1933), historical geographer, writer, and professor of American history... He was Vice-Principal of the Putnam Military Academy, Zanesville, Ohio, until 1897. Hulbert then did newspaper work in Korea in 1897 and '98: he was editor of the Korean Independent (Seoul) and edited Far East American newspapers... He was Professor of American History at Marietta College 1904-18. After Marietta College, Hulbert became a lecturer in American History at Clark University from 1918 to 1919. He also was a lecturer at the University of Chicago in 1904 and 1923; and he served as archivist for the Harvard Commission on Western History (1912-16). Hulbert's last position was at Colorado College, from 1920 until his death... Hulbert's interest in trails dated from fishing trips taken during his college, when he noticed Indian trails. This interest led at first to his 16 volumes of Historic Highways of America (1902-05)."
- Paths of the Mound-Building Indians and the Great Game
Animals, Illustrated 99
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- Washington's Road (Nemacolin's Path), The First Chapter
of the Old French WarBarddock's Road and Three Relative
Papers, Illustrated
99 cents at Kobo 99 cents at Nook (Barnes & Noble) - Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers, Illustrated 99 cents at Kobo 99 cents at Nook (Barnes & Noble)
- The Old Glade (Forbes's) Road (Pennsylvania State Road), Illustrated 99 cents at Kobo 99 cents at Nook (Barnes & Noble)
- Boone's Wilderness Road, Illustrated 99 cents at Kobo 99 cents at Nook (Barnes & Noble)
- Portage Paths -- The Keys of the Continent, Illustrated 99 cents at Kobo 99 cents at Nook (Barnes & Noble)
- Military Roads of the Mississippi Basin, The Conquest of the Old Northwest, Illustrated 99 cents at Kobo 99 cents at Nook (Barnes & Noble)
- The Waterways of Westward Expansion, The Ohio and its Tributaries 99 cents at Kobo 99 cents at Nook (Barnes & Noble)
- The Cumberland Road, Illustrated 99 cents at Kobo 99 cents at Nook (Barnes & Noble)
- Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers, volume 1, Illustrated 99 cents at Kobo 99 cents at Nook (Barnes & Noble)
- Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers, volume 2, Illustrated
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- The Great American Canals, The Erie Canal, Illustrated 99 cents at Kobo 99 cents at Nook (Barnes & Noble)
Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
According to Wikipedia: "Main-Travelled Roads is a collection of short stories by the American author Hamlin Garland. First published in 1891, the stories are set in what the author refers to as the "Middle Border," the northwestern prairie states of Wisconsin, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. In the book's eleven stories, Garland portrays the hardships of agrarian life, deconstructing the conventional myth of the American prairie while highlighting the economic and social conditions that characterized agricultural communities in the rural Midwest.
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Other Main-Travelled Roads by Hamlin Garland
Sequel to "Main-Travelled Roads."
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Roads of Destiny by O. Henry
According to Wikipedia: "O. Henry was the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterization and clever twist endings…. Most of O. Henry's stories are set in his own time, the early years of the 20th century. Many take place in New York City, and deal for the most part with ordinary people: clerks, policemen, waitresses. Fundamentally a product of his time, O. Henry's work provides one of the best English examples of catching the entire flavor of an age. Whether roaming the cattle-lands of Texas, exploring the art of the "gentle grafter," or investigating the tensions of class and wealth in turn-of-the-century New York, O. Henry had an inimitable hand for isolating some element of society and describing it with an incredible economy and grace of language. Some of his best and least-known work resides in the collection Cabbages and Kings, a series of stories which each explore some individual aspect of life in a paralytically sleepy Central American town while each advancing some aspect of the larger plot and relating back one to another in a complex structure which slowly explicates its own background even as it painstakingly erects a town which is one of the most detailed literary creations of the period. The Four Million is another collection of stories. It opens with a reference to Ward McAllister's "assertion that there were only 'Four Hundred' people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen—the census taker—and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the 'Four Million.'" To O. Henry, everyone in New York counted. He had an obvious affection for the city, which he called "Bagdad-on-the-Subway."
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The Road by Jack London
Classic Jack London short stories, including CONFESSION, HOLDING HER DOWN, PICTURES, "PINCHED", THE PEN, HOBOES THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT, ROAD-KIDS AND GAY-CATS, TWO THOUSAND STIFFS, and BULLS. According to Wikipedia: "Jack London (1876 – 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and The Sea Wolf along with many other popular books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from writing."
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The Golden Road by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Classic children's novel by the author of Anne of Green Gables. According to Wikipedia: "Lucy Maud Montgomery, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L. M. Montgomery, (1874-1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following. The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. The novels became the basis for the highly acclaimed 1985 CBC television miniseries, Anne of Green Gables and several other television movies and programs, including Road to Avonlea, which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996."
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The Life of Thomas Telford, Civil engineer, with an Introductory History of Roads and Traveling in Great Britain by Samuel Smiles,
According to Wikipedia: "Thomas Telford (1757–1834) was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder. After establishing himself as an engineer of road and canal projects in Shropshire, he designed numerous infrastructure projects in his native Scotland, as well as harbours and tunnels. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed The Colossus of Roads, and, reflecting his command of all types of civil engineering in the early 19th century, he was elected as the first President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, a post he retained for 14 years until his death.... Samuel Smiles (23 December 1812 – 16 April 1904), was a Scottish author and reformer. ... Smiles is best known today as the writer of books extolling virtues of self help, and biographies lauding the achievements of "heroic" engineers."
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The Underground Rail Road by William Still
Detailed accounts of escapes from slavery. First published in 1872. According to Wikipedia: "William Still (October 7, 1821 – July 14, 1902) was an African-American abolitionist, conductor on the Underground Railroad, writer, historian and civil rights activist.' The Preface begins: "Like millions of my race, my mother and father were born slaves, but were not contented to live and die so. My father purchased himself in early manhood by hard toil. Mother saw no way for herself and children to escape the horrors of bondage but by flight. Bravely, with her four little ones, with firm faith in God and an ardent desire to be free, she forsook the prison-house, and succeeded, through the aid of my father, to reach a free State. Here life had to be begun anew''.
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The Road to Oz, 1909, by L. Frank Baum, Illustrated by John R. Neill
According to Wikipedia: "Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts,[1] and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works predicted such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high risk, action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work)."
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