20 West : the great road across America /
Nelson, Malcolm A.(Malcolm Antony)
Albany : State University of New York Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.
Introduction: The road and us -- The power of the word along the great road -- The great road to justice and freedom : God, man, and woman -- Power and empire on the great road : six presidents and a plutocrat -- Westering : prairies and plains, the big empty and the Sandhills -- Soldiers and Indians : the struggle for a continent -- The best idea : Yellowstone, the peaceable kingdom -- The great road to wilderness -- "Ocian in view! O! the joy!"