The Old Pike (Annotated)

Thomas B. Searight's The Old Pike is a richly textured history of the National Road, the great early federal highway that carried settlers, merchants, stagecoaches, drovers, and politicians westward from Cumberland toward the Ohio Valley. Blending documentary history with anecdote, local memory, biographical sketches, and roadside lore, Searight writes in the antiquarian mode of the late nineteent...