{"product_id":"9783849674939","title":"Historic Highways of America: Volume 10: The Cumberland Road","description":"A series of monographs on the History of America as portrayed in the evolution of its Highways of War, Commerce, and Social Expansion. Comprising the following volumes: \u003cp\u003ePaths of the Mound-Building Indians and Great Game Animals. \u003cbr\u003eIndian Thoroughfares. \u003cbr\u003eWashington's Road: The First Chapter of the Old French War. \u003cbr\u003eBraddock's Road. \u003cbr\u003eThe Old Glade (Forbes's) Road. \u003cbr\u003eBoone's Wilderness Road. \u003cbr\u003ePortage Paths: The Keys of the Continent. \u003cbr\u003eMilitary Roads of the Mississippi Basin. \u003cbr\u003eWaterways of Westward Expansion. \u003cbr\u003eThe Cumberland Road. \u003cbr\u003ePioneer Roads of America (two volumes). \u003cbr\u003eThe Great American Canals (two volumes). \u003cbr\u003eThe Future of Road-Making in America. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen this West was in its teens and began suddenly outstripping itself, to the marvel of the world, one of the momentous factors in its progress was the building of a great national road, from the Potomac River to the Mississippi River, by the United States Government-a highway seven hundred miles in length, at a cost of seven millions of treasure. This ribbon of road, winding its way through Maryland, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, toward the Mississippi, was one of the most important steps in that movement of national expansion which followed the conquest of the West.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jazzybee Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47055284928752,"sku":"9783849674939","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783849674939_p0.jpg?v=1763697023","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783849674939","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}