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This lavishly illustrated book guides the reader along iconic Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles - from the Great Lakes to the heaving Pacific Ocean, through Great Plains and high plateaus, major metropolises and remote country towns. Presenting fifty backroad journeys, this book points the way to[...]
From Anasazi cities built within towering canyon walls, to first settler villages, legendary towns like Bisbee and Tombstone, Spanish colonial outposts like Tubac, this book takes the traveller through sweeping natural wonders and historic sites of the Wild West. Follow Billy the Kid from Bonita, Ar[...]
Ghost towns lie all along the Mother Road. The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boomtowns built around oil mines, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tour[...]
The ultimate guide to America's most famous highway. The Route 66 Encyclopedia is the complete resource on the history, landmarks and personalities that have made the USA's most iconic highway. Stretching over two thousand miles from Chicago to Santa Monica, Route 66 journeys directly to the heart o[...]
The definitive, fully illustrated state-by-state atlas of the shifting alignments, historic sites, and current points of interest along the United States' beloved Route 66.Route 66 changed immensely in the six decades between its opening in 1926 and its removal from the U.S. highway system in 1985. [...]