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Wheels Across America By Clarence Hornung Pictorial history of America on wheels
Wheels Across America By Clarence Hornung Pictorial history of America on wheels from colonial times through the automobile era. Illustrated with over 1100 prints, engravings, photographs and color plates. Dust Jacket 1959 341 pages RAILROAD pages 84-219.
Here is the entire pageant of Wheels across America . . . from the earliest carts and barrows of Colonial settlers to the development of the motor car. Never before have wheels of so many kinds, on such a variety of vehicles, through so many epochs, been pictured and described in one volume. Only the author, Clarence P. Hornung, could have created this book with its enormous wealth of documentary resources: over 1100 rare engravings, prints and early photographs. As the wheels roll, the panorama of America's greatness unfolds, so that the reader relives the sweep of colonization from the slim line of settlements along the Atlantic, over the Alleghenies, across the great plains and the Rockies to the Pacific Coast. The daring, the dreams and hardships, the grime and the glory, the inventiveness which symbolize America are preserved in this exciting book. The author dramatically recreates the birth-throes, charms and perils of stagecoach and carriage, steam locomotive and iron railway, horsecar and trolley, cable car, El, bicycle and the self-propelled buggies: steam, electric and gas. Mr. Hornung's years of enthusiastic search and dedicated study of out-of-print materials, available only in scattered museums and libraries, reward the reader with rare wood-engravings, many printed in color . . . and succinct comment that embraces the Nation's history. Wheels Across America will delight transportation connoisseur and amateur alike; it is a book to be owned with pride by the discerning collector of Americana.
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