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Reviewed by Nicole King | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.3 | The History Cooperative
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Looking Beyond the Dixie Highway
Dixie Roads and Culture

Edited by Claudette Stager and Martha Carver
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2006. Pp. xxi, 298. Maps, illustrations. $48.00.)

This volume examines the history and roadside culture of the Dixie Highway, one of the nation's first comprehensive road systems, designed in the early twentieth century to provide better access from the Midwest to the emerging tourist industries of the South. This handsome and well-organized collection begins by exploring the local histories of the road's planning and development in the period between the two world wars. The subsequent ten chapters examine the roadside material culture that emerged in the following decades. 1
      Indiana entrepreneur Carl Fisher spearheaded the development of the Dixie Highway in 1915. Fisher's contributions as businessman and Good Roads proponent are the subject of the first chapter by Suzanne Fischer, "The Best Road South: The Failure of the Dixie Highway in Indiana." Fisher's insistence that the highway incorporate existing local roads and tourist attractions gave the road its character as a major tourist route, but also lead to its meandering structure and to its separate eastern and western divisions. . . .
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