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On the Lincoln Highway—On the Lincoln Highway

The Lincoln Highway, conceived in 1913, was America’s 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 City’s Times Square at Broadway and Forty-Second Street to San Francisco’s 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 parts—a narrative on the historic road with archival and present-day photos accompanied by driving instructions for today’s 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.

 

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.

 

The Lincoln Highway: Iowa

ISBN: 1-880397-09-9 hc;   1-880397-10-2 lthr

$34.95 

 

On the Lincoln Highway -- Nebraska

The Lincoln Highway: Nebraska

ISBN: 1-880397-15-3 hc;   1-880397-16-1 lthr

$34.95 

The Lincoln Highway: Utah (NEW!)

ISBN: 1-880-397-20-X hc;   1-880397-21-8 lthr

The Patrice Press offers a subscription to all titles for $29.95 each; individual copies without a subscription to the series are $39.95 each.

The Lincoln Highway: Wyoming 

 ISBN: 1-880-397-20-X hc;   1-880397-21-8 lthr

$34.95 

 

 

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