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9781558592094 | Abbeville Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $27.50
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9780898212327 | Country Store Reiman Pubs, July 1, 1998, cover price $16.95
Product Description: Route 66: The Empires of Amusement is, quite simply, the first book ever written to examine in detail the lives of the most overlooked group of people on America's favorite highway: the tourist attraction operators. From Whoopee Coasters to show caves, snake pits to trading posts with piano-playing chickens, Route 66: The Empires of Amusement goes to the families themselves for their stories, and then tells those stories in full...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780966914801 | Mock Turtle Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Route 66: The Empires of Amusement is, quite simply, the first book ever written to examine in detail the lives of the most overlooked group of people on America's favorite highway: the tourist attraction operators.
Product Description: On July 7, 1919, a cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey. Their goal was California, and ahead of them lay 3,250 miles of mud and rock. Sixty-two days later they arrived in San Francisco, having averaged just five miles an hour...read more
Hardcover:
9780805068832 | Henry Holt & Co, July 1, 2002, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Provides an account of the First Transcontinental Motor Train, a 1919 journey from the White House across 3,250 miles to California.
Paperback:
9780805072976 | 2 reprint edition (Owl Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: On July 7, 1919, a cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey.
A richly illustrated history of the first cross-country auto trips exposes the role of these well-publicized jaunts in changing the way the public felt about this new technology. (Transportation)
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9780804743969 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $67.50 | About this edition: A richly illustrated history of the first cross-country auto trips exposes the role of these well-publicized jaunts in changing the way the public felt about this new technology.
Hardcover:
9780375415364 | 1 edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, July 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Chronicles the nation's first road trip by Horatio Jackson, a thirty-one-year-old Vermont doctor who drove his car from San Francisco to New York on mainly unpaved roads in 1903.
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9781932490268 | Anza Pub, April 30, 2005, cover price $24.95
Paperback:
9781932490046 | Anza Pub, July 1, 2004, cover price $12.95
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9781568986005 | Princeton Architectural Pr, August 31, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents images of American life and humorous observations from the travelogue of two special correspondents for the Russian newspaper 'Pravda' who traveled from New York to California and back in 1935.
Product Description: A cross-country road rally of 100,000 automobiles A continuous political parade from the Atlantic to the Pacific A story about the famous Lincoln Highway in 1924 The political caravan highlighting the 1924 presidential campaign of Calvin Coolidge and his running mate, Charles G...read more
Paperback:
9780764327636 | Schiffer Pub Ltd, July 15, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A cross-country road rally of 100,000 automobiles A continuous political parade from the Atlantic to the Pacific A story about the famous Lincoln Highway in 1924 The political caravan highlighting the 1924 presidential campaign of Calvin Coolidge and his running mate, Charles G.
Find out about the history of this famous road that went across the country. Explore the many sites along this road. From natural wonders like the Grand Canyon to human-made oddities like the Blue Whale, no other road captures the imagination like Route 66. What Happened to Route 66? What happened to all of the towns along this historic road?
Paperback:
9781410927088, titled "Route 66: America's Road" | Raintree Pub, October 15, 2007, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Find out about the history of this famous road that went across the country.
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9781410926975, titled "Route 66: America's Road" | Raintree Pub, October 15, 2007, cover price $29.99
An account of the first cross-country automobile trip in the United States made in 1903 by Dr. Horatio Jackson, mechanic Sewall J. Crocker, and bulldog Bud.
Miscellaneous:
9780761351863 | Millbrook Pr, August 1, 2010, cover price $16.95
School and Library:
9780822578857 | Millbrook Pr, April 1, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: An account of the first cross-country automobile trip in the United States made in 1903 by Dr.
Hardcover:
9781476703510 | Atria Books, July 28, 2015, cover price $26.00
Paperback:
9781476703527 | Reprint edition (Atria Books, August 30, 2016), cover price $16.00
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