Taming Big Sky Country

Taming Big Sky Country:: The History of Montana Transportation from Trails to Interstates

Cruising down Montana's scenic highways, it's easy to forget that traveling from here to there once was a genuine adventure. The state's major routes evolved from Native American trails and wagon roads like the Mullan Road into four-lane highways in a little over a century. That story is one of difficult, ground-breaking and sometimes wrong engineering decisions, as well as a desire to make a journey faster, safer and more comfortable.

By Jon Axline. Softcover, 160 pages, photos.