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The Road That Made America: A Modern Pilgrim's Journey on the Great Wagon Road
By James Dodson
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$32.00
By James Dodson
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The Road That Made America details the little-known story of a crucial pathway across the country that paved the way for early settlers and the exploration of North America. With research from on-the-ground work, academics, archeologists, history buffs and more, James Dodson reintroduces us to an obscure piece of American history in a whole new way.
In the bestselling tradition of Rinker Buck’s The Oregon Trail and Tony Horwitz’s Confederates in the Attic, The Road That Made America is a lively, epic account of one of the greatest untold stories in our nation’s history—the eight-hundred-mile long Great Wagon Road that 18th-century American settlers forged from Philadelphia to Georgia, which expanded the country dramatically in the decades before we ventured west.
Little known today, the Great Wagon Road was the primary road of frontier ...
Little known today, the Great Wagon Road was the primary road of frontier ...
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