This page features articles about the history, the important people, and the development of America's early 20th century auto trails.
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- How to find the oldest auto trail and US highway alignments even without an old map by Steven Varner
- President's Touch Will Weld Final Link in Lee Highway in S. D. Today
― Reprinted from the San Diego Union, 17 Nov 1923, page 1.
- President Marks End of Highway
― Reprinted from the San Diego Union, 18 Nov 1923, page 1.
- S.D. County Crisscrossed by superb paved highways
― Reprinted from the San Diego Union, 12 Jun 1940, page 12.
- The National Old Trails Road: Perpetuating the Historic Highways of America's Pioneers―The Value of the Old Trails Road in the "See America" Movement by Charles Henry Davis, President of the National Highways Association
― Reprinted from Travel, May 1915, page 34.
- Army Train Makes 30 Miles a Day - an article on the Bankhead Highway military motorcade
― Reprinted from American Motorist, November 1920, page 28.
- Bankhead Highway by Thomas McAdory Owen
― An entry from History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography. Chicago, 1921. Page 90.
- Across New Mexico and Arizona by Jehiel S. Davis
― Reprinted from Outing magazine, June 1921. Page 122.