20 West
Subtitle: the great road across America
By: Mac Nelson.
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780791474693
Subjects: Nelson, Malcolm A. -- Travel -- United States; United States -- Description and travel; United States Highway 20 -- Description and travel; West (U.S.) -- Description and travel; United States -- History -- Anecdotes; United States Highway 20 -- History -- Anecdotes; West (U.S.) -- History -- Anecdotes; United States -- History, Local; United States -- Biography
Genres: Anecdotes.; Biography.
Other titles: Twenty West
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The road and us; title: The power of the word along the great road; title: The great road to justice and freedom : God, man, and woman; title: Power and empire on the great road : six presidents and a plutocrat; title: Westering : prairies and plains, the big empty and the Sandhills; title: Soldiers and Indians : the struggle for a continent; title: The best idea : Yellowstone, the peaceable kingdom; title: The great road to wilderness; title: "Ocian in view! O! the joy!"