The poor state of roads, 1910

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This file appears in: The Yellowstone Trail

Photograph by Frank Palmer,

Image L84-327.1153 Courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

This file appears in: The Yellowstone Trail

By Cory Carpenter
"Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound" was the motto of the Yellowstone Trail, America's first transcontinental highway, established in 1912. Interstate 90 was not the first road in the United States to connect east to west. In fact,…