The nineteenth-century evolution of local-scale roads in Kentucky's bluegrass

Geographical Review

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 415-439

  Raitz, Karl ^a   O'Malley, Nancy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b William S Webb Museum of Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

Kentucky; Local roads; Road engineering; Road history; Road law

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY; LEGISLATION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; ROAD TRANSPORT; TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM;

POA PRATENSIS;

EID: 27744484571     PISSN: 00167428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2004.tb00181.x     Document Type: Review

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