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Transportation, Travel, and Exploration

Clubbe, John, “The Forging of a Writer: Lafcadio Hearn in Cincinnati,” Ohio Valley History, 7 (Spring 2007), 1–31.

Grant, H. Roger, “The Georgia & Florida Railroad and Wiregrass Agriculture,” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 91 (Spring 2007), 28–48.

Raitz, Karl, and Nancy O’Malley, “Local-Scale Turnpike Roads in Nineteenth-Century Kentucky,” Journal of Historical Geography (London), 33 (Jan. 2007), 1–23.

Rubiés, Joan-Pau, “Travel Writing and Humanistic Culture: A Blunted Impact?” in Bringing the World to Early Modern Europe: Travel Accounts and Their Audiences, ed. Peter Mancall, 131–68. (Leiden: Brill, 2006. 168 pp. $98.00, isbn 978-90-04-15403-2.)

Waff, Craig B., “‘Go to the Moon instead of Just Going into Orbit,’” Air Power History, 54 (Spring 2007), 22–37.

 

Cartwright, Bradley Jay, “Pacific Passages: American Encounters with the Pacific and its People, 1815–1955” (University of Colorado at Boulder, 2006). Order No. DA3219035.

Marrs, Aaron Wagner, “The Iron Horse Turns South: A History of Antebellum Southern Railroads” (University of South Carolina, 2006). Order No. DA3224457.

 

Bezilla, Michael, and Jack Rudnicki, Rails to Penn State: The Story of the Bellefonte Central. (Mechanicsburg: Stackpole, 2007. x, 310 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-0-8117-0231-7.)

Dedek, Peter B., Hip to the Trip: A Cultural History of Route 66. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. x, 169 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4194-5.)

Whittlesey, Lee H., Storytelling in Yellowstone: Horse and Buggy Tour Guides. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2007. xiv, 377 pp. $27.95, isbn 978-0-8263-4117-4.)

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