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Census “counted 132 counties within fifteen western states . . ”20 Those extremely rural frontier areas comprise 13 percent of the landmass of the contiguous United States, strikingly similar to the population map of 1890. ) The invention and manufacture of the automobile and paved highways provided the national psyche with a surrogate frontier. By 1927, 26 million cars stank and jarred around the country, each driver a pioneer. For the following generation, the mythic drive from coast- tocoast became a rite of passage; and the road book, an important American literary form.
The old Pequot Path was an ancient and wooded Indian trail that ran along the southern New England coast before bending north to what is now Maine. As white settlements grew, it metamorphosed into a stagecoach road, then became The Old Post Road and eventually a turnpike. S. Route 1, the first named road in the federal government’s new numbering system. ”23 Yet it follows the same route and serves the same purpose as it did 350 years earlier: to carry human traffic. The Pequot Path is an example of the living dynamism of place, a type of historical observation that does not interest many contemporary writers.
5 Mailer’s novel revealed the gap that was opening between Americans who lived in cities and suburbs and those who lived in the rural countryside, a gap that is now a vast chasm. Today most Americans live in fairly dense population centers and regard the sparsely populated regions of the country as empty. They define the hinterlands Dangerous Ground 7 only in terms of utility: scenic vistas of tourism and outdoor adventure trips; sites for seasonal vacation homes; the locus of the raw stuff of extractive industries such as timber and coal; good places for nuclear testing and missile silos, and now, for the storage of nuclear waste.
