An edition of Taming Big Sky Country (2015)

Taming Big Sky Country

The history of Montana transportation from trails to interstates

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Taming Big Sky Country
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An edition of Taming Big Sky Country (2015)

Taming Big Sky Country

The history of Montana transportation from trails to interstates

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Drives this breathtaking did not come easy. Cruising down Montana's scenic highways, it's easy to forget that traveling from here to there once was a great adventure. The state's major routes evolved from ancient Native American trails into four-lane expressways in a little over a century. That story is one of difficult, groundbreaking and sometimes poor engineering decisions, as well as a desire to make a journey faster, safer and more comfortable. It all started in 1860, when John Mullan hacked a wagon road over the formidable Rocky Mountains to Fort Benton. It continued until the last section of interstate highway opened to traffic in 1988. Montana Department of Transportation historian Jon Axline charts a road trip through the colorful and inspiring history of trails, roads and superhighways in Big Sky Country.

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The History Press
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English
Pages
143

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Roads, Transportation, History, Transportation, history

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Taming Big Sky Country: The History of Montana Transportation from Trails to Interstates
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Cover of: Taming Big Sky Country
Taming Big Sky Country: The History of Montana Transportation from Trails to Interstates
2015, Arcadia Publishing
in English
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Taming Big Sky Country: The history of Montana transportation from trails to interstates
2015, The History Press
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction. Roads to romance: Getting around in Big Sky Country
Part I. Enterprises of incalculable importance: Montana's early roads
The Mullan Road
The Montana Road
A monument above the water: Parson's Bridge
The Bozeman trail
The Northern Overland Route
Toll roads
Stagecoach etiquette
The iron horse transforms Montana's roads
Part II. Getting Montana out of the mud
The Montana State Highway Commission
A new direction
Modernizing Montana's bridges
Part III. The Montana Highway Department takes the reins
The Federal Aid Road Act of 1921
When Montana's highways had names: The trail associations
The Good Roads law
Part IV. Transforming Montana's highways during the dirty thirties
The Beartooth Highway
The New Deal
Howdy everyone! Glad to see you!
Countdown to war
Part V. A time of unprecedented construction: The postwar years
Preparing for peace in a time of war, 1942-1945
The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1944
From war to peace, 1946-1956
Funding problems
The national system of interstate highways
Montana's white crosses: The roadside fatality markers
Part VI. Your highway dollars at work: The interstate highways
The golden age of Montana's interstate system, 1956-1966
A tough piece of work: Interstate 15 and the Wolf Creek Canyon
The interstates, 1968-1988
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographic references (pages 135-139) and index.

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Charleston, South Carolina

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Library of Congress
HE356.M85 A95 2015, HE356.M85A95 2015

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143 pages
Number of pages
143

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL30390531M
ISBN 10
1626198527
ISBN 13
9781626198524
LCCN
2014959300
OCLC/WorldCat
899229641

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OL22313012W

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