A History Of Transportation In Western North Carolina: Trails, Roads, Rails & Air

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."

• | Author: Terry Ruscin, Robert Morgan
• | Publisher: History Press Library Editions
• | Publication Date: Oct 31, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 274 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/History
• | ISBN-10: 1540200515
• | ISBN-13: 9781540200518