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Route 66 : a road to America's landscape, history, and culture

Title
Route 66 : a road to America's landscape, history, and culture / Markku Henriksson ; Plainsword by Susan A. Miller.
Author
Henriksson, Markku.
Publication
Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2014]

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Description
xxii, 268 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
"Offers insight into America as revealed through the author's perspective on the peoples, histories, cultures, literature, and music of US Route 66"--
Series Statement
Plains histories
Uniform Title
Plains histories.
Alternative Title
Route sixty-six
Subject
  • Henriksson, Markku > Travel
  • United States Highway 66 > History
  • West (U.S.) > Description and travel
  • West (U.S.) > History, Local
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index.
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.
Call Number
IW 14-4249
ISBN
  • 9780896726772 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 0896726770 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9780896728257 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0896728250 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780896728264 (e-book) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2013028355
OCLC
833575118
Author
Henriksson, Markku.
Title
Route 66 : a road to America's landscape, history, and culture / Markku Henriksson ; Plainsword by Susan A. Miller.
Publisher
Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press, [2014]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Plains histories
Plains histories.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-251) and index.
Research Call Number
IW 14-4249
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