100 Years on the Road

100 Years on the Road
Title 100 Years on the Road PDF eBook
Author Timothy B. Spears
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 324
Release 1997-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 9780300070668

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Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.

The Road

The Road
Title The Road PDF eBook
Author Cormac McCarthy
Publisher Vintage Books
Pages 297
Release 2007
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0307386457

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In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity

Miles and Miles of Texas

Miles and Miles of Texas
Title Miles and Miles of Texas PDF eBook
Author Carol Dawson
Publisher Texas A&M University Press
Pages 421
Release 2016-09-23
Genre History
ISBN 1623494567

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On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state. When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.

Traveling With Greyhound

Traveling With Greyhound
Title Traveling With Greyhound PDF eBook
Author Robert Gabrick
Publisher Enthusiast Books
Pages 0
Release 2014-08-15
Genre Transportation
ISBN 9781583883105

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Bringing Americans together by bus for 100 years, Greyhound is one of the top iconic names of the Twentieth Century with their running dog logo. It all started with Carl Wickman and partners when they offered a fare of 15 cents one way or 25 cents round-trip between Alice and Hibbing Minnesota, in a large Hupmobile -which was a hit amongst the iron mine workers. The business quickly prospered and eventually became the empire that it is today. Greyhound's goal of providing city to city service helped lead the country in bus travel, allowing the public a chance to sight-see coast-to-coast and border-to-border, visit far-away loved ones, or escape to vaster lands with greener pastures. By expanding bus lines, building bus depots and Post Houses, and with outstanding promotional efforts, Greyhound pioneered an industry. As the full story of the Greyhound company unfolds, the book is illustrated with wonderful old bus photos, artistic ads and timetables that depict a more fanciful era (one that made riding on a Greyhound romantic) and then takes a journey through the eras that follow (like the one with the famous Scenicruiser) and into today's modern buses.

Dodge 100 Years

Dodge 100 Years
Title Dodge 100 Years PDF eBook
Author Matt DeLorenzo
Publisher Motorbooks International
Pages 195
Release 2014-06
Genre Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN 076034552X

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"Dodge 100 is the official, Dodge-licensed complete illustrated history of the legendary American automotive brand. From Horace and John Dodge's dealings with Henry Ford, through the war years, and into the modern age with cars like the Viper and Dodge Dart, Dodge 100 Years is the authoritative history of one of the world's first (and best) automakers"--

100 Years of Highway Excellence

100 Years of Highway Excellence
Title 100 Years of Highway Excellence PDF eBook
Author United States. Federal Highway Administration
Publisher
Pages 32
Release 1994
Genre Government publications
ISBN

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The Milwaukee Road

The Milwaukee Road
Title The Milwaukee Road PDF eBook
Author August Derleth
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2002
Genre Transportation
ISBN 9780877458012

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From its incorporation in 1847 in Wisconsin Territory to its first run in 1851--twenty miles between Milwaukee and Waukesha--to its later position of far-flung power, the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul &Pacific Railroad Company had a vivid history. By 1948, the Milwaukee Road had more than 40,000 employees and maintained more than 10,000 miles of line in twelve states from Indiana to Washington. Also in 1948, August Derleth's popular and well-crafted corporate history celebrated the strength and status of this mighty carrier. On February 19, 1985, the railroad became a subsidiary of Soo Line Corporation and its identity vanished overnight. Nonetheless, it remains a romantic memory, and Derleth's book remains the only complete history of this innovative and dynamic railroad.