Illinois Trails & Traces

Portraits and Stories Along the State's Historic Routes

Gary Marx, Daniel Overturf (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

294 Seiten

2022
Southern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8093-3848-1 (ISBN)

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Partners the deft writing of Gary Marx with vivid photography by Daniel Overturf to illuminate ever evolving patterns of travel and settlement. Taking the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, this book shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways.

Trails & Traces partners the deft writing of Gary Marx with vivid photography by Daniel Overturf to illuminate ever evolving patterns of travel and settlement. Taking the reader on a journey down early buffalo traces and Native American trails, this book shows how these paths evolved into wagon roads and paved highways. Marx and Overturf explore historic routes ranging from Route 66 to the Underground Railroad, all the way back to post-Ice Age animal migration trails followed by Paleo-Indian people. The authors also examine how rivers, canals, and railroads spurred the rapid rise of Illinois as a modern state.

In this book, Marx and Overturf bring history into the present by including over forty photographic portraits and written profiles of individuals who live along these routes today. Many of the people you will meet on these pages work to preserve and honor the history of these passages. Others profiled here embody the spirit of the old roads and provide a vivid link between past and present. Through this journey, we discover that we’ve all been traveling the same road all along.

Gary Marx is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Kansas City Star and numerous other publications. Daniel Overturf, an exhibiting photographer and professor of photography at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has coauthored Artificial Lighting for Photography (2009) with Joy McKenzie. Together Marx and Overturf are the authors of A River Through Illinois (2007).

CONTENTS
Foreword
Introduction
1. The Road In
2. Trails Through the Wilderness
3. Twin Canoes
4. Paths of War
5. Up from the Ohio
6. The Lincoln Way
7. Stagecoach to Canal Boat
8. The Railroad Era
9. Out of the Mud
10. Waves of Humanity
Afterword
Maps
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.11.2022
Vorwort	Dick Durbin
Zusatzinfo	113 illustrations
Verlagsort	Carbondale
Sprache	englisch
Maße	270 x 210 mm
Gewicht	1021 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Reisen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8093-3848-3 / 0809338483
ISBN-13	978-0-8093-3848-1 / 9780809338481
Zustand	Neuware