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John Mullan: The Tumultuous Life of a Western Road Builder

John Mullan: The Tumultuous Life of a Western Road Builder

Petersen, Keith C.

Paperback

Adventurers & ExplorersHistorical FiguresRegional: West

Publisher Price: $32.95

ISBN10: 0874223210
ISBN13: 9780874223217
Publisher: Washington St Univ Pr
Published: Apr 28 2014
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Awards: Idaho Library Association Book Award

John Mullan's celebrated construction project--a 625-mile link that connected the Missouri and Columbia rivers--established the West Point graduate as an accomplished road builder. After completing the West's first engineered highway at age thirty-two, he lived for nearly another half century, a period of dynamic change. When he died in 1909, automobiles were making their initial crossings along the route he engineered, and his arterial eventually became a critical link in America's longest interstate freeway, I-90. Yet despite frequent mentions in books about the nineteenth century Northwest, the soldier/explorer has remained little more than a caricature: a dashing young Army officer who comes West, builds one of its most important thoroughfares, and then disappears from the region's literature.

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