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Conveniences Sorely Needed: Montana's Historic Highway Bridges, 1860-1956 de Jon Axline

Conveniences Sorely Needed: Montana's Historic Highway Bridges, 1860-1956

Autor Jon Axline
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 noi 2005
Although fast-disappearing, Montana's historic bridges are an integral and often overlooked part of Montana's landscape. This book tells the stories of those bridges and how they shaped the development of the Treasure State from the early horse-and-buggy
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ISBN-13: 9780972152266
ISBN-10: 0972152261
Pagini: 173
Dimensiuni: 185 x 258 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Ediția:First.
Editura: Montana Historical Society Press

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Old bridges do more than just span rivers. They provide important connections between the people who built them and those who came after. Many of these historic structures reflect the promotional spirit that fueled Montana's growth. For the state's earliest communities, a good bridge could mean the difference between prosperity and oblivion.Bridges speak to the time in which they were built. They provide physical reminders of significant periods in American history - the Great Depression, for example, when bridge building flourished as the federal government looked for ways to put people to work. Some of Montana's bridges are engineering marvels; some are beautiful. All afforded valuable service to their communities - facilitating the transportation of crops to market, enhancing tourism, and providing safe passage over the state's treacherous waterways and busy rail lines.Today, historic bridges are rapidly disappearing from the Montana landscape. Time and weather have taken their toll, as has traffic. Nineteenth-and early-twentieth-century bridge designers never intended their creations to handle the number of cars that now travel Montana's roads - or the speed at which they usually travel. Yet as old bridges are demolished to make way for new ones, growing numbers of citizens have come to see the state's remaining historic bridges as visible and underappreciated reflections of Montana's past.Transportation historian Jon to the explores the past, illuminating the forces that built Montana's historic bridges and the structures' importance tothe communities they served. And, while recognizing that not every bridge can be preserved, he ably conveys their significance as monuments to our collective history.

Notă biografică

Jon Axline is the historian at the Montana Department of Transportation. A frequent contributor to Montana The Magazine of Western History, Axline's publications include his contributions to the Helena history series More From the Quarries of Last Chance Gulch and Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Montana History. He lives in Helena, Montana, with his wife Lisa and daughters Kate and Kira.