A history of transportation in western North Carolina : trails, roads, rails & air / Terry Ruscin ; foreword by Robert Morgan.
"Traveling across the treacherous and diverse landscape of western North Carolina is a challenge historically met with human ingenuity. Mountain traces of Native Americans, dusty stagecoach routes and vital railroads lined the region. Asheville installed the state's first electric streetcars. Intrepid young men and women continued North Carolina's aviation legacy. The Buncombe Turnpike helped tame the Blue Ridge Mountains, allowing livestock drives to reach markets in South Carolina. Author Terry Ruscin reveals the visionaries and risk-takers who paved the way to the "Land of the Sky" in a wondrous examination of western North Carolina transportation history."--Back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781467137065
- ISBN: 1467137065
- ISBN: 9781540200518
- ISBN: 1540200515
- Physical Description: 271 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm
- Publisher: Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Afoot -- A-wheel -- Afloat -- Aloft.
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- Subject:
- Wagons > Transportation > North Carolina > History.
Railroad travel > North Carolina > History.
Roads > North Carolina > History.
Transportation > North Carolina > History.
North Carolina > History.
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- 31 of 34 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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