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Transportation, Travel, and Exploration

Cidell, Julie, “Air Transportation, Airports, and the Discourses and Practices of Globalization,” Urban Geography, 27 (Oct.–Nov. 2006), 651–63.

Cummins, Light Townsend, “‘Her Weary Pilgrimage’: The Remarkable Mississippi River Adventures of Anne McMeans, 1778–1782,” Louisiana History, 47 (Fall 2006), 389–415.

Goldfeder, Ron, “Railroaders in the Great War,” Railroad History (no. 194, Spring–Summer 2006), 68–81.

Grant, H. Roger, “Railroad through Receivership,” Railroad History (no. 194, Spring–Summer 2006), 6–17.

Lindley, William R., “Maritime Portland: With Sailing Ships and River Boats, the Harbor City Grew and Prospered,” Journal of the West, 45 (Summer 2006), 72–84.

Ory, David T., and Patricia L. Mokhtarian, “Which Came First, the Telecommuting or the Residential Relocation? An Empirical Analysis of Causality,” Urban Geography, 27 (Oct.–Nov. 2006), 590–609.

Owens, Kenneth N., “Frontiersman for the Tsar: Timofei Tarakanov and the Expansion of Russian America,” Montana, 56 (Autumn 2006), 3–21.

Warnes, Kathy Covert, “The Endurance and Adventures of the Ship Dove,” Inland Seas, 62 (Fall 2006), 214–26.

White, John H., Jr., “Famous Long Ago,” Railroad History (no. 194, Spring–Summer 2006), 22–36.

 

Bryan, Jimmy L., Jr., “The American Elsewhere: Adventurism and Manliness in the Age of Expansion, 1815–1848” (Southern Methodist University, 2006). Order No. DA3213458.

McKinney, Tom Watson, “Superhighway Deluxe: Houston’s Gulf Freeway” (University of Houston, 2006). Order No. DA3212138.

 

Dick, Steven J., and Keith L. Cowing, eds., Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea, and the Stars. (Washington: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2005. x, 294 pp. $20.00, isbn NASA SP-2005-4701.)

Garvin, Donna-Belle, ed., Consuming Views: Art & Tourism in the White Mountains, 1850–1900. (Concord: New Hampshire Historical Society, 2006. 119 pp. $39.95, isbn 1-58465-613-1.) Heavily illustrated.

Guice, John D. W., ed., By His Own Hand? The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xxii, 178 pp. Paper, $14.95, isbn 978-0-8061-3851-0.) Citations to relevant essays can be found in “Recent Scholarship Online” /rso/.

Keenan, Jerry, The Life of Yellowstone Kelly. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xxii, 377 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4035-1.)

Post, Robert C., Urban Mass Transit: The Life Story of a Technology. (Westport: Greenwood, 2007. xvi, 181 pp. $45.00, isbn 0-313-33916-3.)

Scott, Kim Allen, Yellowstone Denied: The Life of Gustavus Cheyney Doane. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xii, 305 pp. $32.95, isbn 0-8061-3800-9.)

Skidmore, Max J., Moose Crossing: Portland to Portland on the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway. (Lanham: Hamilton, 2007. xii, 239 pp. Paper, $38.00, isbn 978-0-7618-3510-3.)

 

McIlhany, Edward Washington, “Recollections of a ’49er,” California Territorial Quarterly (no. 67, Fall 2006), 4–37. Heavily illustrated.

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