Part I. Introduction
Reading America's Roads
Traveling the Road
Part II. Overland Roads and the Epic of Kentucky's Settlement
Coming to Kentucky
Regional Context
Road Evolution
Indian Paths and Buffalo Traces
Pioneer Road
Turnpike Road
State and Federal Highway
From Turnpike to Parkway
Part III. The Maysville Road : A Landscape Biography
The Road as a Corridor of Complexity
Lexington
The Original Limestone Trace : A Side Trip on Bryan Station Road
The City-to-Country Transition
Gentleman Farms and the Inner Bluegrass Landscape
Siting Paris
Side Trip : High Street from the Bourbon County Courthouse South to the Juncture of High and Main Streets
Nineteenth-Century Paris
Paris toward Blue Licks
Millersburg
The Eden Shale Hills
Blue Licks
Commemoration, Heritage, and a Battlefield Park
Blue Licks toward Maysville
Fairview and Ewing
Fairview toward Mason County
The Outer Bluegrass
Mayslick : "The Asparagus Bed of Mason County"
Old Washington
Slavery, the Underground Railroad, and Hemp Production
Intersections and Commercial Roadside Development
Maysville
Living with the River
East Maysville
Part IV. Reflecting on Roads and American Culture
The Changing Landscape of Mobility.