Beginning with the Puritan ordinary, which New England towns thought nearly as necessary as a meeting-house, Earle traces the American tavern and the roads that fed it. She covers landlords and their signboards, drinks and fare, turnpike tolls for every sort of wagon and ox-cart, and the jolting, sociable world of the stage-coach before the railroad.
Social history at its most enjoyable, gathered from old records and full of curious detail. Download the free EPUB.