The king's best highway : the lost history of the Boston Post Road, the route that made America
by Jaffe, Eric.
- From Indian path to post road
- The "ordinary way"
- Of fidelity and fate
- Benjamin Franklin, postman
- Inflammatory papers and tavern politicians
- The general and the blacksmith
- Setting the business in motion
- The railroad as highway
- The great Boston-New York rivalry
- Toward union
- Barnum, Morgan, and New England's "invisible government"
- The nation's road standard
- Colonel Pope and the good roads movement
- "Rocks, ruts, and thank-you-marms"
- Highway Route 1, relocated
- Changing the face of America
- Cruising the BPR.