This companion volume to The National Road is a traveler's guide to the nation's first federally funded highway. Combining a wealth of historical and geographic
From there two routes went west toward the Mississippi River, one to East St. Louis and the other to Alton, Illinois. (Today the Road's path is followed, for th
This collection of "eloquent essays that examine the relationship between the American landscape and the national character" serves to remind us that despite ou
"The life story of America's first highway -- born as an Indian footpath, known over the years as the National Road and the National Pike, and surviving as U.S.