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

Offers detailed descriptions of drives through California and the Southwest, with a flexible format allowing one to switch routes during a journey, and includin

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

"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.