Along The Maysville Road: Early Republic Trans-Appalachian West
Description
Before the National Road and the Erie Canal, another transportation revolution was underway in the United States. Beginning in the 1770s, the Maysville Road--a sixty-five-mile dirt trail that stretched from the Ohio River to the Bluegrass region of Kentucky--served as a stage upon which people wrestled with issues of power, identities, and worldviews. For six decades, the road provided a conduit through which political, economic, social, and cultural ideas circulated into and within the early American West. Andrew Jackson brought the trail to national attention when he vetoed Henry Clay...
ISBN(s)
1572333154, 9781572333154