A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails & Air

Terry Ruscin

A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails & Air
Format
Hardback
Publisher
History Press Library Editions
Country
Published
31 October 2016
Pages
274
ISBN
9781540200518

A History of Transportation in Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails & Air

Terry Ruscin

Traveling across the treacherous and diverse landscape of western North Carolina is a challenge historically met with human ingenuity. Mountain traces of Native Americans, dusty stagecoach routes and vital railroads lined the region. Asheville installed the state s first electric streetcars. Intrepid young men and women continued North Carolina s aviation legacy. The Buncombe Turnpike helped tame the Blue Ridge Mountains, allowing livestock drives to reach markets in South Carolina. Author Terry Ruscin reveals the visionaries and risk-takers who paved the way to the Land of the Sky in a wondrous examination of western North Carolina transportation history.

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