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Blogs Liberty and Power Private Toll Road Competition in the Wild West

Jan 14, 2010

Private Toll Road Competition in the Wild West

by Liberty and Power

Nevada had over one hundred toll roads during the nineteenth century, some of them hundreds of miles in length. Find out the full story in this article I wrote (co-authored by Linda Beito) several years ago.