100 Years on the Lincoln Highway

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In 1919, my grandfather took his fiancee and her mother from Casper to Yellowstone in his Model T. The highway markers were rocks along the way that were painted yellow to mark the route to the National



Park. In Cody he had to stop at the blacksmith shop where he and the smith made new rod bearings for the engine. After a number of vehicle failures during the trip, my grandmother and great grandmother took the train back to Casper.



My grandfather got home a week later.





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Wyoming PBS
Published on Jun 1, 2017

Before the Interstate Highway System, before famed Route 66, before highways were even numbered, there was one road that started it all, one road that changed America forever: The Lincoln Highway. “100 Years on the Lincoln Highway” is the story of the first coast to coast automobile road in the United States and its impact on Wyoming.