Book Description

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- PART ONE MAIN ROUTES -- 2 From Jitney to Giant: The Early Growth of Long-Distance Bus Transport in the USA -- 3 Missing Connections: The Long-Distance Bus Industry in the USA from the Second World War to Deregulation -- PART TWO REGIONAL HIGHWAYS -- 4 Tracing the Hound: The Minnesota Roots of the Greyhound Bus Corporation -- 5 Iowa's Bus Queen: Helen M. Schultz and the Red Ball Transportation Company -- 6 Minnesota's 'Mr Bus': Edgar F. Zelle and the Jefferson Highway Transportation Company -- PART THREE ALTERNATIVE AVENUES -- 7 The Motor Carrier Act of 1935: The Origins and Establishment of Federal Regulation of the Interstate Bus Industry in the USA -- 8 'See this Amazing America': The Long-Distance Bus Industry's Use of Advertising in its First Quarter Century -- 9 Not Rosie the Riveter: Women's Diverse Roles in the Making of the American Long-Distance Bus Industry -- 10 On and Off the Buses: 1940s Images from New York -- Bibliographical Essay and Bibliography -- Index