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Ten years after its original publication, Drake Hokansons best-selling book continues to inspire readers to leave the interstate for a road less traveled, but one that still fuels the American preoccupation with the open road.In his new introduction to this tenth anniversary edition, Hokanson revisits the Lincoln Highway and finds it changedmuch for the bettersince the original publication of this book. Most notably, he calls attention to the reinvigorated Lincoln Highway Association and its efforts to preserve what is left of the old road. Hokanson finds more and more tourists traveling the roadnot only Americans but foreigners as wellby car, bus, and motorcycle on journeys not to any particular destination, but simply to see America.
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Lincoln Highway--History, Lincoln Highway--Pictorial works.
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1999
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HE356.L7H65 1999eb
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388.1/0973
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Lincoln Highway--History, Lincoln Highway--Pictorial works.
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The Lincoln Highway
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The Lincoln Highway
Main Street across America
A Tenth Anniversary Edition
Text and photographs by Drake Hokanson
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1999 by Drake Hokanson
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel
http://www.uiowa.edu/~uipress
No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. All reasonable steps have been taken to contact copyright holders of material used in this book. The publisher would be pleased to make suitable arrangements with any whom it has not been possible to reach.
Printed on acid-free paper
Publication of this book was supported in part by a generous grant from the University of Iowa Foundation.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hokanson, Drake, 1951 The Lincoln Highway: main street across America/text and photographs by Drake Hokanson 10th anniversary ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87745-676-3 (pbk.) 1. Lincoln Highway History. 2. Lincoln Highway Pictorial works. I. Title. HE356.L7H65 1999 388.1'0973 dc21 98-54125
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For Carol, who knows every mile, every word, every photograph, and who embodies the grand spirit of "the open road and the flying wheel."
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Publication of this book was supported in part by a generous grant from the University of Iowa Foundation
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xv
Introduction to the Tenth Anniversary Edition
xvii
Part I. The Early Highway
Chapter 1. An Imaginary Line Like the Equator!
3
Chapter 2. A Highway for Lincoln
14
Chapter 3. The Open Road and the Flying Wheel
22
Part II. An American Geography
Chapter 4. New York City to Chicago: The Settled East
41
Chapter 5. Chicago to Salt Lake City: Where the West Begins
50
Chapter 6. Salt Lake City to San Francisco: Desert, Mountain, and Sea
62
Part III. Roads for the Country
Chapter 7. America Takes to the Highway
75
Chapter 8. Numbers, Not Names
93
Chapter 9. Going My Way on the Lincoln Highway
112
Chapter 10. The Highway Takes America
127
Chapter 11. The Faint Line
135
Place-Names along the Lincoln Highway, 1915-1916
149
Notes on Sources
153
Index
155
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This book, like any other, bears the invisible marks of many individuals. By far the most helpful in a material sense (and many times in a spiritual sense as well) were the many librarians, assistants, and researchers who bent frontwards and backwards to find information of all kinds. Many who helped never even whispered their names, but others are herein named: W. David Lee of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials; Sue Williams of the American Automobile Association Library; Jane Pollock and Sharon Balius of the University of Michigan Engineering and Transportation Library; Hank Zaletel of the Iowa Department of Transportation; O.H. Van Zee of Arlington, Virginia; and Richard Menzies, Salt Lake City. Special thanks goes to Richard F. Weingroff of the Federal Highway Administration for his eleventh-hour photocopying spree, and to friends and librarians Margaret Richardson and Robert McCown here at the University of Iowa.
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