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A Route 66 Companion.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (201 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780292735736
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: A Route 66 CompanionDDC classification:
  • 810.9/35873
LOC classification:
  • PS648
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Foreword: America's Road by Michael Wallis -- INTRODUCTION -- I. Railroads and the Prehistory of Route 66 -- Dave Edmunds, Buffalo Hunting on Route 66 -- Washington Irving, A Tour on the Prairies -- Count de Pourtalès, On the Western Tour with Washington Irving -- Edward F. Beale, The Journals of the Superintendent of the Wagon World -- Michael Amundson, Railroaders' Route 66 -- Hal G. Evarts, Jr., One Night in the Red Dog Saloon -- Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail -- Man Susanyatame, Recalling Route 66's Trail of Tears -- A Bioregional Approach to Route 66: An Introduction -- II. Prairie 66: Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas -- Vachel Lindsay, The Santa Fe Trail -- Carolyn Wheat, Too Many Midnights -- Thomas Wolfe, The Lost Boy -- Jay Smith, The Boy: Okie Passage on Route 66 -- David August, Blind Corner -- James H. Cobb, West on 66 -- III. Plains 66: Oklahoma and Texas -- Greg Malak, Working with Will -- Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers -- Lance Henson, Back Road 66 -- Karen Hesse, Wild Boy of the Road -- Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book -- Gary Phillips, '53 Buick -- Edmond Threatt, Black on 66 -- Michael Wallis, Mr. Route 66 -- Robert M. Davis, Kicking 66 -- Delbert Trew, On Route 66 in Texas -- Stanley Marsh III, Cadillac Ranch -- IV. Mountain 66: New Mexico and Arizona -- Raymond Wierth and Joe Miller, Mining Along 66 -- Harvey Fergusson, Hot Saturday -- Paul Horgan, The Thin Mountain Air -- Mary Toya, Laguna Exile -- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony -- Lucille Fletcher, The Hitch-Hiker -- Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare -- Rudolfo Anaya, Hispanic on Route 66 -- V. Desert and Coastal 66: California -- Ed Gorman, Gunslinger -- Raymond Chandler, The High Window -- Louis Owens, Indian Farm-Workers on 66 -- Ry Cooder, The Music of 66 -- Robert Ervin, Soul in the Desert.
Earlene Fowler, Blue Time -- Sylvia Plath, Sleep in the Mojave Desert -- Joan Didion, Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream -- Ross MacDonald, Sleeping Beauty -- VI. The Future of 66 -- Peter Friedman, A Rocket Scientist Looks at Route 66's Future -- Fredric Brown, Rogue in Space -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World -- A Select Route 66 Bibliography -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.
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Intro -- Foreword: America's Road by Michael Wallis -- INTRODUCTION -- I. Railroads and the Prehistory of Route 66 -- Dave Edmunds, Buffalo Hunting on Route 66 -- Washington Irving, A Tour on the Prairies -- Count de Pourtalès, On the Western Tour with Washington Irving -- Edward F. Beale, The Journals of the Superintendent of the Wagon World -- Michael Amundson, Railroaders' Route 66 -- Hal G. Evarts, Jr., One Night in the Red Dog Saloon -- Zane Grey, The U.P. Trail -- Man Susanyatame, Recalling Route 66's Trail of Tears -- A Bioregional Approach to Route 66: An Introduction -- II. Prairie 66: Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas -- Vachel Lindsay, The Santa Fe Trail -- Carolyn Wheat, Too Many Midnights -- Thomas Wolfe, The Lost Boy -- Jay Smith, The Boy: Okie Passage on Route 66 -- David August, Blind Corner -- James H. Cobb, West on 66 -- III. Plains 66: Oklahoma and Texas -- Greg Malak, Working with Will -- Will Rogers, The Autobiography of Will Rogers -- Lance Henson, Back Road 66 -- Karen Hesse, Wild Boy of the Road -- Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book -- Gary Phillips, '53 Buick -- Edmond Threatt, Black on 66 -- Michael Wallis, Mr. Route 66 -- Robert M. Davis, Kicking 66 -- Delbert Trew, On Route 66 in Texas -- Stanley Marsh III, Cadillac Ranch -- IV. Mountain 66: New Mexico and Arizona -- Raymond Wierth and Joe Miller, Mining Along 66 -- Harvey Fergusson, Hot Saturday -- Paul Horgan, The Thin Mountain Air -- Mary Toya, Laguna Exile -- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath -- Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony -- Lucille Fletcher, The Hitch-Hiker -- Henry Miller, The Air-Conditioned Nightmare -- Rudolfo Anaya, Hispanic on Route 66 -- V. Desert and Coastal 66: California -- Ed Gorman, Gunslinger -- Raymond Chandler, The High Window -- Louis Owens, Indian Farm-Workers on 66 -- Ry Cooder, The Music of 66 -- Robert Ervin, Soul in the Desert.

Earlene Fowler, Blue Time -- Sylvia Plath, Sleep in the Mojave Desert -- Joan Didion, Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream -- Ross MacDonald, Sleeping Beauty -- VI. The Future of 66 -- Peter Friedman, A Rocket Scientist Looks at Route 66's Future -- Fredric Brown, Rogue in Space -- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World -- A Select Route 66 Bibliography -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author.

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