ROADS - HISTORY

Wild old days!

Author
R. L. Loeffelbein
Article Date
July-August 1973
Article Abstract
The plank road 6.7 miles long which extended across the sand dunes west of Yuma until 1926
Language
English
Journal Title
True West
Journal Volume
20
Page Number(s)
52-53
Subject Headings
ROADS - HISTORY
Object type
Article
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The wit and pain of the Old Plank Road

Author
D. Dedera
Article Date
August 1976
Article Abstract
Travelers from California to southern Arizona in the 1920s drove over redwood planks laid across sand dunes near Yuma
Language
English
Journal Title
Outdoor Ariz
Journal Volume
48
Page Number(s)
10
Subject Headings
ROADS - HISTORY
Object type
Article
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The general's shortcut

Author
J. E. Cook
Article Date
July 25, 1971
Article Abstract
General Crooks road along the Mogollon Rim from Fort Apache to Camp Verde
Language
English
Journal Title
Arizona
Page Number(s)
20-29
Subject Headings
ROADS - HISTORY
Object type
Article
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State's only toll road called out "Sunday best"

Article Date
March 20 1955
Article Abstract
North Central Ave., Phoenix, was kept watered and was toll road from about 1896-1903
Language
English
Journal Title
Ariz Days & Ways
Page Number(s)
8
Subject Headings
ROADS - HISTORY
Object type
Article
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Spanish attempts to open a New Mexico-Sonora road

Author
M. Simmons
Article Date
Spring 1975
Language
English
Journal Title
Ariz and the West
Journal Volume
17
Page Number(s)
5-20
Subject Headings
ROADS - HISTORY
Object type
Article
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Old plank road is but a memory

Author
R. G. Willson
Article Date
February 20 1972
Language
English
Journal Title
Arizona
Page Number(s)
78-79
Subject Headings
ROADS - HISTORY
Object type
Article
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Letter to governor Goodwin, 1864

Author
H. Ehrenberg
Article Date
July 1936
Article Abstract
Transmits a map and discusses his survey for a wagon route between La Paz and the Weaver mines
Language
English
Journal Title
Ariz Hist Rev
Journal Volume
7
Page Number(s)
88-89
Subject Headings
ROADS - HISTORY
Object type
Article
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Birth of a highway

Author
R. L. Sperry
Article Date
Summer 1975
Article Abstract
The first roads across the sand hills west of Yuma
Language
English
Journal Title
High Country
Journal Volume
33
Page Number(s)
5-10
Subject Headings
ROADS - HISTORY
Object type
Article
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