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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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Details
- 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
- Transportation
- Nevada
- Pictorial works
- Roads > Nevada > Design and construction > History > Pictorial works
- Roads > Nevada > History > Pictorial works
- History
- Nevada > Buildings, structures, etc > Pictorial works
- Transportation > Nevada > History > Pictorial works
- Roads > Design and construction
- Illustrated works
- Buildings
- 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