Recent Scholarship
Transportation, Travel, and Exploration
Aldrich, Mark, “From Forest Conservation to Market Preservation: Invention and Diffusion of Wood-Preserving Technology, 1880–1939,” Technology and Culture, 47 (April 2006), 311–40.
Grant, H. Roger, “The Ozark Short Line Railroad: A Failed Dream,” Missouri Historical Review, 100 (July 2006), 197–211.
Green, Jerry E., “Riverboat Technology and Riverboat Builders for the Yukon River, 1896–1906,” Alaska History, 19 (Spring–Fall 2004), 45–61.
Hartley, William G., and Fred E. Woods, “Explosion of the Steamboat Saluda: Tragedy and Compassion at Lexington, Missouri, 1852,” Missouri Historical Review, 99 (July 2005), 281–305.
Hyde, Charles K., “Planning a Transportation System for Metropolitan Detroit in the Age of the Automobile: The Triumph of the Expressway,” Michigan Historical Review, 32 (Spring 2006), 59–95.
Hyslop, Stephen G., “One Nation among Many: The Origins and Objectives of Pike’s Southwest Expedition,” Kansas History, 29 (Spring 2006), 2–13. Heavily illustrated.
Kessell, John L., “‘To Stop Captain Merry’: Spanish Efforts to Intercept Lewis and Clark,” New Mexico Historical Review, 81 (Spring 2006), 125–40.
Lange, Lou Ann, “Travelers and Travel’s ‘Significant “Others”’: Three Visitors to the Arkansas Territory in 1818–1819,” Missouri Historical Review, 100 (Oct. 2005), 19–39.
Martin, Louis C., “The Pine Bank Bridge and Its Changing Meaning through the Years,” Western Pennsylvania History, 89 (Summer 2006), 26–33.
Mitchell, Daniel J. b., “Earl Warren’s Fight for California’s Freeways: Setting a Path for the Nation,” Southern California Quarterly, 88 (Summer 2006), 205–38.
Morsman, Jenry, “Collision of Interests: The Effie Afton, the Rock Island Bridge, and the Making of America,” Common-Place, 6 (July 2006) http://www.common-place.org.
Oliva, Leo E., ed., “‘Sent out by our Great Father’: Zebulon Montgomery Pike’s Journal and Route across Kansas, 1806,” Kansas History, 29 (Spring 2006), 14–33. Heavily illustrated.
Paddock, Eric, “Looking across the Divide: The Visual Legacy of Captain John W. Gunnison,” Colorado Heritage (Spring 2006), 35–47. Heavily illustrated.
Reutter, Mark, and J. Parker Lamb, “Crescent City Bound,” Railroad History (no. 193, Fall–Winter 2005), 8–26.
Rhodes, Joel P., “The Father of Southeast Missouri: Louis Houck and the Coming of the Railroad,” Missouri Historical Review, 100 (Jan. 2006), 72–86.
Witte, Kevin C., “In the Footsteps of the Third Spanish Expedition: James MacKay and John T. Evans’s Impact on the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” Great Plains Quarterly, 26 (Spring 2006), 85–98.
Greenberg, Jason Bernard, “Light Rail Transit in the United States since 1980: If You Build It, Will They Come?” (University of Louisville, 2005). Order No. DA3190023.
Cenkl, Pavel, This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire’s White Mountains, 1784–1911. (Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2006. xxviii, 178 pp. $34.95, isbn 1-58729-498-2.)
Imbarrato, Susan Clair, Traveling Women: Narrative Visions of Early America. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2006. xiv, 254 pp. $42.95, isbn 978-0-8214-1674-7.)
Berry, Trey, Pam Beasley, and Jeanne Clements, eds., The Forgotten Expedition, 1804–1805: The Louisiana Purchase Journals of Dunbar and Hunter. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xxxvi, 248 pp. $29.95, isbn 0-8071-3165-2.)
Di Maio, Irene S., ed., Gerstäcker’s Louisiana: Fiction and Travel Sketches from Antebellum Times through Reconstruction. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006. xiv, 328 pp. $49.95, isbn 0-8071-3146-6.)
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