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Building Nevada's highways /

Title
Building Nevada's highways / Jennifer E. Riddle and Elizabeth Dickey.
Author
Riddle, Jennifer E.,
Publication
  • Charleston, South Carolina : Arcadia Publishing, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
Dickey, Elizabeth,
Description
127 pages : chiefly illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Roads are rarely given a second thought yet are indispensable to life. Admittedly, a book dedicated to roadways sounds a bit dry. But behind every double-diamond interchange, every pork chop island, and every type of asphalt is a fascinating history of the traveling public. This book reveals the hidden history of building the Silver States highways since 1917. The next time you take a road trip across Nevada on the Lincoln Highway (US 50) or the Victory Highway (US 40) or follow a rutted road to a once-booming ghost town think of the ingenious and industrious men and women, surveyors, engineers, chemists, and yes, even the teams of mules that built the roads we still travel today"--Back cover.
Series Statement
Images of America
Uniform Title
Images of America.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History.
  • Illustrated works.
  • Pictorial works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
Contents
By horse or by rail: early transportation and the birth of the Highway Department -- The team: surveyors, engineers, construction, and support -- In the wake of a road: how highways irrevocable change a landscape -- A call to duty: the Highway Department's response to the great world wars -- Nevada's Department: community involvement and seminal works.
ISBN
  • 1467134066
  • 9781467134064
LCCN
2015948001
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library