The Old Iron Road
Subtitle: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: May 6, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780670033089
Subjects: United States; West (U.S.); Travel - United States; Ground Transportation; U.S. History - Westward Expansion; United States - State & Local - West; History: American; United States - General; Essays & Travelogues; Railroads - History; History / General; History; Description and travel; Railroads
First sentence: We had been driving north on the old Leavenworth to Fort Laramie military road, now designated Kansas Highway 7/73, concrete and strips of softening tar winding through attractive wooded hills, wild trumpet vines and daylilies sprouting at roadside, willows and poplars alternating with pastures, hayfields, and stands of corn.