This week, a birthday card arrived from my mother. Across the top she wrote, “Happy 52nd Birthday.” I called her up to thank her for the card and mentioned that she could have just said Happy Birthday ...

The year 1912 proved to be a turning point for the history of automobile travel. J.W. Parmley of Ipswich, South Dakota proposed the creation of the first transcontinental automobile highway in the ...

Conceived in 1912, when the automobile was just starting to take hold, the Yellowstone Trail – "A Good Road from Plymouth Rock to Puget Sound" – was one of the nation's first long-distance roadways, ...

WATSON -- A century before MapQuest or Google Maps were invented, motorists using one of the country's first coast-to-coast highways followed the "Yellowstone Trail" by watching for chrome yellow ...

MONTEVIDEO — In the beginning, there were no roads. Yet, in the span of only seven years — 1912 to 1919 — the Yellowstone Trail came to be. The coast-to-coast car route was built by the communities ...

Benton City plans to honor the historic Yellowstone Trail at its annual Benton City Daze festival, which is Sept. 8-9. The trail was a transcontinental road built nearly 100 years ago when there were ...

Across the road from Undine Falls on the side of a hill, visitors to Yellowstone National Park’s northeast corner can still see a portion of the now-abandoned and faded Howard Eaton Trail. “It was ...