U.S. Route 41 - The Long Road North: Small Cities and Towns from the Tamiami Trail to Michigan’s Copper Country (Spirit Roads of America - Book 15)

Follow one of America's great highways from the edge of the Everglades to Michigan's Copper Country. U.S. Route 41: The Long Road North explores thirty small cities and towns along a road stretching from South Florida to the tip of Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula. Rather than rushing between major destinations, Mark Bureau pauses at depot towns, courthouse squares, river crossings, mining communities, and old commercial streets where the highway's history remains visible. The journey begins beside the Tamiami Trail and continues through Florida's springs and Gulf country, Georgia's railroad and farm towns, the ridges of Tennessee, the rural crossroads of Kentucky and Indiana, Wisconsin's forest country, and the former copper communities of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Along the way, local stories reveal how Native paths, railroads, agriculture, industry, tourism, and changing traffic patterns shaped the places beside the pavement. Part travel history and part portrait of small-town America, this book is for readers who believe the most memorable journeys begin when the old road is allowed to tell its story.