Summary: Tom Bodett explores the trails that extended America's frontiers. He follows the footsteps and wagon ruts of rugged pioneers, dauntless homesteaders, reclusive mountain men, and stop-at-nothing gold hunters as they explored, settled, and worked the new land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Questar 2002
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Summary: This annually updated travel guide to Alaska and Northwest Canada is a must-have resource for travelers to these areas. "The Milepost" provides maps, diagrams, photographs, and an almost mile-by-mile travelogue of what to expect along the main roads.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Morris Communications Company, LLC 2023
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Summary: From a vineyard route through Northwest wine country to a winter wonderland on Alberta's Icefields Parkway, this informative travel guide offers epic sights, good bites, and pure fun. Pack your car and hit the road to experience 100 drives--both classic and off the beaten track--across the United States and Canada. You'll find innovative itineraries outlining your route, along with when to go...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 YOGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.3 YOGMichelin North America, Inc
Summary: Let Michelin s updated Large Format North America Road Atlas 2017 take you to your next destination. Large-format maps and larger lettering for towns and sites (compared to the midsize atlas) make for easier reading while the tiled format flows maps from page to page the ideal complement to GPS and online directions. Four jam-packed pages feature selected US and Canadian national parks, with...
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912 MICPetroski, Henry.
Summary: "Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient.' This crisis--and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.1 PETNg, Yvonne
Summary: "A boy walks home one day, only to find his street under construction! As he enjoys watching the excavators, bulldozers, dump trucks, pavers, and more, he gets a sense of the building process from start to finish. From blueprints to demolition to fresh, new asphalt, friendly, bright illustrations show the construction machines and workers up close"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amicus 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NGSummary: Fully revised and updated for 2020, this specialist A3 road atlas has new and improved mapping designed for the British motorist in Europe. Includes information on road distances, car ferries, national parks, towns, and other places of interest. There are new overview maps to help plan your route with place names shown in local languages. 12 miles to 1 inch 1:750,000 (main atlas scale). Some...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: AA Media 2020
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912 AAHorvath, James
Summary: Duke and his construction crew of worker dogs race to build and repair a highway from the city to the beach.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN HORUniversal Map (Firm)
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Publisher / Publication Date: UniversalMap 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R 912.7 UniversalAmerican Automobile Association
Summary: Provides detailed road maps for each state, province, and major city in North America.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: American Automobile Association 2014
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Summary: Join an adventurous rabbit and his animal friends as they journey over steep mountain peaks, through bustling cityscapes, and down long, winding roads to discover the magical worlds that await them just outside their doors. Award-winning author Pat Zietlow Miller's lilting rhyme and bestselling illustrator Eliza Wheeler's enchanting, lush landscapes celebrate the possibilities that lie beyond...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2018
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Summary: The 2019 Rand McNally Road Atlas marks the 95th edition of America's #1 Road Atlas! The most trusted and best-selling US atlas on the market, this updated edition contains maps of every U.S. state and Canadian province, an overview map of Mexico, and detailed inset maps of over 350 cities and 20 U.S. national parks. Road construction and conditions contact information for every state...
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Rand McNally 2018
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 912 ROA1 available in Reference, Call number: R 912 ROA
Summary: General index map of Automobile routes showing main highways in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky with correct geographical location of cities and towns, also adjacent Tennessee, West Virginia and Pennsylvania.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1920
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 912 OFFRinker, Sherri Duskey
Summary: Told in rhyming text, seven new road-building machines set out on a job--building, rolling, paving, and painting a brand new road.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2021
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: E HenZemlicka, Shannon
Summary: Briefly introduces the process by which rocks and asphalt are turned into a roadway using tractors, bulldozers, graders, and other equipment.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lerner Publications 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 625.7 ZEMEggers, Dave
Summary: "From the best-selling author of The Monk of Mokha, a suspenseful story of two men, Western contractors sent to work far from home, tasked with paving a road to the capital in a dangerous and largely lawless country that questions whether we can ever understand another nation's war, and what role we have in forging anyone's peace"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC EGGFurgang, Kathy
Summary: This informative book helps students learn to follow a road map, including using the grid system, legend, and compass rose. Students are also taught to understand and use a scale on a map. Each topic arms students with useful knowledge about reading road maps. A follow-up activity encourages readers to use a map to write directions for a friend.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing, LLC 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 912 FURHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Profiles the life and adventures of Daniel Boone; chronicling his childhood in Pennsylvania, service in the French and Indian War, journey across the Appalachians, and settlement of Boonesboro, Kentucky; and includes illustrations, maps, and primary source quotations.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2007
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mairs Geographischer Verlag 0000
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Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEASummary: "Tokyo highway, go your own way. This game is based on Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway known for its distinctive metropolitan structure. The game has no board, no squares. Players build roadways across each other's highway and compete to place all their cars under a certain rule. As you follow the simple steps and build your way, there arises a unique architectural space on the table. Build your...
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Itten 2018