The great Valley Road of Virginia
Subtitle: Shenandoah landscapes from prehistory to the present
By: edited by Warren Hofstra and Karl Raitz.
Contributors: Hofstra, Warren R., 1947-; Raitz, Karl B.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780813928852
Subjects: United States Highway 11 -- History; Landscape -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History; Transportation -- Shenandoah Rivery Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History; Roads -- Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History; Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.) -- History, Local 
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The lay of the land / Karl Raitz; title: Before the great road : Indian travelers on the great warriors' path / Michael N. McConnell; title: The colonial road / Warren R. Hofstra; title: An early road to the Old West, 1780-1837 / Gabrielle M. Lanier; title: Strategy and sublimity : a gallery of valley pike images during the Civil War; title: Geraldine Wojno Kiefer and James K. Bryant III; title: The best thoroughfare in the South / Kenneth W. Keller; title: The turnpike towns / Ann E. McCleary; title: U.S. 11 and a modern geography of culture and connection / Karl Raitz.