Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893–1921: Ambivalence and Aspiration

Acknowledgments
Praise for Narrating a New Mobility Landscape in the Modern American Road Story, 1893–1921
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Prologue: The Cultural Terrain of America’s Modern Road Landscape
Chapter 2: Storied Road: Ambivalence in the Landscape of American Automobility
	2.1 The Road Shapes Landscape
	2.2 The Road Organizes a Genre
	2.3 The Road Conditions Popular Consent
	2.4 The Road Spurs Mobility
	2.5 The Road Commands Immobility
	2.6 The Road Composes Ambivalent Subjectivities
	2.7 The Road Points the Way
Chapter 3: Control and Consent: Contested Sovereignty on America’s Country Roads
	3.1 Walt Whitman and the Landscape of an Agrarian Republic
	3.2 Spreading the Gospel of Good Roads: Isaac Potter and the League of American Wheelmen
	3.3 Hamlin Garland and the Populist Uprising for Good Country Roads
	3.4 Paul Laurence Dunbar, Black Country Life, and the Road to Town
	3.5 Dirt-Road Statesmen and Congressional Impasse
	3.6 Conclusion: Contesting Sovereignties, a Nation of Country Roads
Chapter 4: Cynicism and Progress: Gullible Devotion to the Prospect of National Automobility
	4.1 L. Frank Baum’s Land of Oz and the Humbugs of the White City
	4.2 Louis Henri Sullivan and the Architecture of Transportation’s Future
	4.3 Colonel Albert Pope Charting the “Object Lesson” of Columbian Roads
	4.4 Frederick Jackson Turner on the Settler Frontier of Transportation Progress
	4.5 Congressional Progressives and the Construction of “a Splendid System of Highways”
	4.6 Americans of Color in the White City: Ida B. Wells Barnett, Simon Pokagon, and Paul Laurence Dunbar
	4.7 Conclusion: Inspiring Delusion, the Prospect of National Automobility
Chapter 5: Trailblazing Modernity: Mapping the Compromises of Mass Mobility
	5.1 Lawmakers Building Pathways of Conquest into a Settler Road System
	5.2 Henry Bourne Joy Pioneering the Lincoln Highway
	5.3 A. L. Westgard, Self-Described Daniel Boone of the Gasoline Age
	5.4 Charles Eastman, Ohiyesa, and the Challenge of Opening a Different Way
	5.5 Sinclair Lewis and the Romance of the Modern Trail
	5.6 Conclusion: Pioneering Compromises on the Frontiers of Mass Mobility
Chapter 6: Into the Great Escapism: Vacationing Vagabonds Getting Nowhere Fast
	6.1 John Burroughs and the Nature Poetry of Fordism
	6.2 The Songbook of the Vagabond: Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey
	6.3 Emily Post and Effie Price Gladding, Socialites Trying to Outrun Their Own Prejudice
	6.4 Zitkala-Ša, Runaway from All “Semblance of Civilization”
	6.5 Outpacing Pretense in the American Legislature
	6.6 Henry James and the Disillusionments of the American Scene
	6.7 Conclusion: Vacant Consumerism and the Modern Mobility Landscape
Chapter 7: The Freedom of Conscription: Tramps Outcast on the Road
	7.1 Vagaries of Justice: The Hobo Push and the United States Capitol
	7.2 Upton Sinclair and the Road to the Hobo Jungle
	7.3 Josiah Flynt Out There Tramping with the Tramps
	7.4 Jack London as Tramp, a Player in the Game of Equivocations
	7.5 Vachel Lindsay, Begging and Choosing the Gospel of Beauty
	7.6 Samuel Blowsnake, Opening the Road to the Earthmaker
	7.7 Theodore Dreiser and the Campfires of Wrath in the Modern Landscape
	7.8 Conclusion: Constrained by Mobility, Life on the Road
Chapter 8: Epilogue: The Same Old Story of the American Road
Bibliography
Index