The Old Iron Road
Subtitle: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Published: April 26, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780143035268
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.