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Route 66 : a road to America's landscape, history, and culture / Markku Henriksson ; Plainsword by Susan A. Miller.

Van Pelt Library F595.3 .H46 2014
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Henriksson, Markku.
Series:
Plains histories
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
United States Highway 66--History.
United States Highway 66.
West (U.S.)--Description and travel.
West (U.S.).
West (U.S.)--History, Local.
Henriksson, Markku--Travel.
Henriksson, Markku.
Physical Description:
xxii, 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Other Title:
Route sixty-six
Place of Publication:
Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2014]
Summary:
"Offers insight into America as revealed through the author's perspective on the peoples, histories, cultures, literature, and music of US Route 66"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Prologue: before the trip
My connection with the road
The mother road
Land of pigs and corn
Land of the muddy river
Land of the south wind
The home for all Indians
The panhandle
Land of the zia sun
The arid zone
Through purgatory to paradise
For the road
and before
The remembrance.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780896726772
0896726770
9780896728257
0896728250
OCLC:
833575118

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