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The Beartooth Highway : a history of America's most beautiful drive / Jon Axline.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Axline, Jon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beartooth Highway (Mont. and Wyo.)--History.
- Beartooth Highway (Mont. and Wyo.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (124 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : The History Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- Traversing the spectacular Beartooth Highway in Montana and Wyoming is an unforgettable experience. The unspoiled mountain scenery along the highway inspired famed news correspondent Charles Kuralt to label it "America's most beautiful drive, " yet the story behind this engineering marvel is largely unknown. It is an epic account of man versus nature to construct a road through unforgiving wilderness. Built during the height of the Great Depression and rising 10, 947 feet above sea level, the Beartooth Highway sparked an economic boom in Red Lodge, Cooke City and Yellowstone National Park. Understandably, it continues to leave a profound impression on people privileged to drive it. Historian Jon Axline tells the exciting and colorful narrative behind the origins and construction of the Beartooth Highway.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439657133
- 1439657130
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