On the Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway, conceived in 1913, was Americas first coast-to-coast
highway. A demonstration road, it is credited with pulling the nation out of the mud and
starting it on a great travel adventure.
The highway stretched from New York Citys Times Square at Broadway and
Forty-Second Street to San Franciscos Lincoln Park on the Pacific shore. In so
doing, it crossed the states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa,
Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California.
Our state-by-state series of guidebooks to this great road starts with The Lincoln
Highway: Iowa and moves west from there.
Each title consists of two partsa narrative on the historic road with archival
and present-day photos accompanied by driving instructions for todays motorists.
Travelers are guided along pavement, asphalt, brick, gravel, "two-tracks," and
just plain dirt in places.
The second half consists of a map portfolio, showing all known versions of the highway
as a dark gray line superimposed over the latest available 7.5-minute topographic
quadrangles from the U.S. Geological Survey. Using these maps, the road may be followed
from west to east or east to west.
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The Patrice
Press offers a subscription to discount of $5.00 towards each title.
A limited numbered edition bound
in top grain leather, with ribbon markers, will sell for $150, or $135
to subscribers.
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