The Lincoln Highway: Main Street across America

547 Pages·1999·11.76 MB·English

by  Drake Hokanson

The Lincoln Highway : Main Street Across
title:
America
author: Hokanson, Drake.
publisher: University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin: 0877456763
print isbn13: 9780877456766
ebook isbn13: 9781587291135
language: English
Lincoln Highway--History, Lincoln
subject
Highway--Pictorial works.
publication date: 1999
lcc: HE356.L7H65 1999eb
ddc: 388.1/0973
Lincoln Highway--History, Lincoln
subject:
Highway--Pictorial works.
Page i
The Lincoln Highway
Page ii
Page iii
The Lincoln Highway
Main Street across America
A Tenth Anniversary Edition
Text and photographs by Drake Hokanson
University of Iowa Press
Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright © 1999 by Drake Hokanson
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
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No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any
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Printed on acid-free paper
Publication of this book was supported in part by a generous grant
from the University of Iowa Foundation.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hokanson, Drake, 1951-
The Lincoln Highway: main street across America/text and
photographs by Drake Hokanson 10th anniversary ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87745-676-3 (pbk.)
1. Lincoln Highway History. 2. Lincoln Highway Pictorial
works. I. Title.
HE356.L7H65 1999
388.1'0973 dc21 98-54125
Page v
For Carol,
who knows every mile, every word,
every photograph, and who embodies
the grand spirit of "the open
road and the flying wheel."
Page vi
Publication of this book was supported in part by a generous grant
from the University of Iowa Foundation
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction xv
Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition xvii
Part I. The Early Highway
Chapter 1. An Imaginary Line Like the Equator! 3
Chapter 2. A Highway for Lincoln 14
Chapter 3. The Open Road and the Flying Wheel 22
Part II. An American Geography
Chapter 4. New York City to Chicago: The Settled East 41
Chapter 5. Chicago to Salt Lake City: Where the West 50
Begins
Chapter 6. Salt Lake City to San Francisco: Desert, 62
Mountain, and Sea
Part III. Roads for the Country
Chapter 7. America Takes to the Highway 75
Chapter 8. Numbers, Not Names 93
Chapter 9. Going My Way on the Lincoln Highway 112
Chapter 10. The Highway Takes America 127
Chapter 11. The Faint Line 135
Place-Names along the Lincoln Highway, 1915-1916 149
Notes on Sources 153
Index 155