LEADER 04031nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910811829303321 005 20240408201931.0 010 $a0-7914-7825-4 010 $a1-4356-5885-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780791478257 035 $a(CKB)1000000000536484 035 $a(OCoLC)237799049 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10575879 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000093092 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12006952 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000093092 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10024466 035 $a(PQKB)11197411 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3407453 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3407453 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10575879 035 $a(OCoLC)923405377 035 $a(DE-B1597)681589 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780791478257 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000536484 100 $a20070829d2008 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$a20 West$b[electronic resource] $ethe great road across America /$fMac Nelson 210 1$aAlbany :$cState University of New York Press,$dc2008. 215 $a1 online resource (356 pages) 225 0 $aExcelsior Editions. 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-7914-7469-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 309-312) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: The road and us -- The power of the word along the great road -- The great road to justice and freedom : God, man, and woman -- Power and empire on the great road : six presidents and a plutocrat -- Westering : prairies and plains, the big empty and the Sandhills -- Soldiers and Indians : the struggle for a continent -- The best idea : Yellowstone, the peaceable kingdom -- The great road to wilderness -- "Ocian in view! O! the joy!" 330 $aGold Medalist, 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Travel-Essay category"I know US 20, I live on it, grew up near it, commute to work on it, and have run on it most mornings for twenty-five years. It has become the Main Street of my life. I am fond of it, and want to tell its very American story." ? from the IntroductionWhether he's on foot, in a car, or even in a canoe, Mac Nelson will delight readers with his rambling, westward depiction of America as seen from the shoulders of its longest road, US Route 20. As the "0" in its route number indicates, US 20 is a coast-to-coast road, crossing twelve states as it meanders 3,300 miles from Boston, Massachusetts, to Newport, Oregon. Nelson, an experienced "shunpiker," travels west along the Great Road, ruminating on history, literature, scenery, geology, politics, wilderness, the Great Plains, and national parks?whatever the most interesting aspects of a particular region seem to be. Beginning with the great writers and founders of religion in the East who lived and wrote on or near US 20, including Anne Bradstreet, Phyllis Wheatley, and Sylvia Plath, then crossing the plains to the forests, mountains, and deserts of the West, Nelson's journey on this beloved road is personal and idiosyncratic, serious and comic. More than a mile-by-mile guidebook, Twenty West offers a glimpse of a boyish and very American fascination with the road that will entice the traveler in all of us to take the long way home. 607 $aUnited States Highway 20$xDescription and travel 607 $aUnited States Highway 20$xHistory$vAnecdotes 607 $aUnited States$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xDescription and travel 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$vAnecdotes 607 $aUnited States$xHistory, Local 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xDescription and travel 607 $aWest (U.S.)$xHistory$vAnecdotes 607 $aUnited States$xHistory 676 $a973 700 $aNelson$b Malcolm A$g(Malcolm Antony)$0695594 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811829303321 996 $a20 West$94088533 997 $aUNINA