Arizona's Historic Bridges
Title | Arizona's Historic Bridges PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry A. Cannon and Patricia D. Morris |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1467133442 |
Arizona was once just a passage for pioneers headed west for gold, religious freedom, and cheap land. Native Americans had lived in and explored the territory for years, but it was Manifest Destiny and the western expansionist philosophy of the burgeoning US government that created the impetus for better and faster routes across the vast territory with its topographical challenges. In the 1880s, the railroads first booted their way across the landscape, following historic trails before the highways were built. The Grand Canyon and Colorado River were obvious challenges, but there were also seasonal waterways that needed crossings. The history of the state unfolds with this book, profiling the bridges that define these historic transportation routes. Many of them have been proudly restored by their communities or the state, while others are gone or are in a sad state of decline.--Amazon.com.
Arizona's Historic Bridges
Title | Arizona's Historic Bridges PDF eBook |
Author | Jerry A. Cannon |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2015-08-03 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 1439652651 |
Arizona was once just a passage for pioneers headed west for gold, religious freedom, and cheap land. Native Americans had lived in and explored the territory for years, but it was Manifest Destiny and the western expansionist philosophy of the burgeoning US government that created the impetus for better and faster routes across the vast territory with its topographical challenges. In the 1880s, the railroads first booted their way across the landscape, following historic trails before the highways were built. The Grand Canyon and Colorado River were obvious challenges, but there were also seasonal waterways that needed crossings. The history of the state unfolds with this book, profiling the bridges that define these historic transportation routes. Many of them have been proudly restored by their communities or the state, while others are gone or are in a sad state of decline.
Route 66 Crossings
Title | Route 66 Crossings PDF eBook |
Author | Jim Ross |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 2016-02-19 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0806155809 |
Route 66 is a beloved and much studied symbol of twentieth-century America. But until now, no book has focused on the bridges that spanned the rivers, creeks, arroyos, and railroads between Chicago and Santa Monica. In this handsome volume, Route 66 authority and veteran writer and photographer Jim Ross examines the origins and history of the bridges of America’s most famous highway, structures designed to overcome obstacles to travel, many of them engineered with architectural aesthetics now lost to time. Featuring hundreds of Ross's own photographs, Route 66 Crossings showcases bridges ranging in design from timber to steel and concrete, and provides schematics, maps, and global coordinates to help readers identify and locate them. Ross’s comprehensive accounting of structures along the Mother Road’s various alignments includes bridges still in use, those that have vanished or have been abandoned, and the few consciously preserved as monuments. He also recognizes ancillary structures that enhanced safety and helped facilitate traffic, such as railway grade separations, tunnels, and pedestrian underpasses. Ross seeks to encourage ongoing preservation of the structures that remain. In brilliant color and precise detail, Route 66 Crossings expands our knowledge of the bridges that linked America’s first all-weather national highway.
Arizona Bridge Inventory
Title | Arizona Bridge Inventory PDF eBook |
Author | Arizona. Department of Transportation |
Publisher | |
Pages | 610 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Bridges |
ISBN |
Documentation of the Historic Black Jack Canyon Bridge (Cold Creek Canyon Bridge #258)
Title | Documentation of the Historic Black Jack Canyon Bridge (Cold Creek Canyon Bridge #258) PDF eBook |
Author | Greta J. Rayle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 104 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Black Jack Canyon Bridge (Ariz.) |
ISBN |
Historic American Engineering Record Index to Photographs
Title | Historic American Engineering Record Index to Photographs PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1987* |
Genre | Bridges |
ISBN |
Identifying and Preserving Historic Bridges
Title | Identifying and Preserving Historic Bridges PDF eBook |
Author | Merv Eriksson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Bridges |
ISBN |