Thomas B. Searight was an American author about whose life and education little public information is available, and only one work by him is known to survive. He is known for writing The Old Pike, a book about the Cumberland Road that records the history of this important early highway. The work has the documentary character of local and road history and offers material for the study of early American transportation and the communities along the route. Because this is the only known work by the author, his overall body of work is little understood, and he is generally associated with this single history of the road.
