Vintage American Travel Writing: Crossing The Country Before It Was Easy

Traveling in the twenty-first century is swift and painless. Once traffic starts moving, we can cover a hundred miles in about ninety minutes, and, if we’re flying, we can have breakfast in New York and lunch in Los Angeles. This is a book about when traveling was hard. The 21 stories in this collection, including first-hand accounts by Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson and Horace Greeley, tell what it was like to travel the United States by steamboat and train, stagecoach and automobile, before there were interstate highways or, in some cases, before there were even roads.