Route 66 Companion Paperback
Route 66 Companion Paperback Even before there was a road, there was a route. America's insatiable westering urge culminated in Route 66, the highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles. Buffalo…
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Route 66 Companion Paperback
Even before there was a road, there was a route. America's insatiable westering urge culminated in Route 66, the highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles. Buffalo trails, Indian paths, the old Santa Fe trace--all led across the Great Plains and the western mountains to the golden oasis of California.
It offered the chance for freedom and a better life, whether you were down-and-out Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl in the 1930s or cool guys cruising in a Corvette in the 1960s. Opened in 1926, Route 66 became the quintessential American road. Even though the interstates long ago turned Route 66 into a bylane, it still draws travelers from around the world who long to experience the freedom of the open road.A Route 66 Companion gathers fiction, poetry, memoir, and oral history to present a literary historical portrait of America's most storied highway.
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