Figuring out just how Tanner got from town to town, swamp to swamp proved to be an early challenge, that is until I realized I needed road maps from the late 1930s.
Using the wonderful world of on-line auctions, i.e. eBay, I soon assembled a collection of vintage maps that not only told where the pre-interstate roads were, but their condition. And a lot of them were classified as "unimproved." People had only been buying cars for about 20 years and the nations road systems were lagging far behind.
Sharkey Road wasn't the only muddy thoroughfare he had to manage.
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