List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Highway Icon
Iconography
Physical Setting
Part I
Before the Fact: The Route in the Mind
CHAPTER ONE: PREFIGURED PATHWAY
Clovis and Folsom Occupation of the Southern High Plains
Chaco and Cahokia
Spanish and French
Santa Fe Trail
CHAPTER TWO: THIRTY-FIFTH PARALLEL ROUTE
Benton and Fremont
California Gold
Simpson and Sitgreaves
Gwin and Kern
Beale Wagon Road
South-West Branch
Chicago Pullmans
CHAPTER THREE: CONSTRUCTING THE ROUTE AS A RAILROAD
Palmer and Greenwood
Santa Fe Railroad
Lewis Kingman
William Hood
Grand Canyon
Indian Territory
Rock Island Line
Part II
From Idea to Fact: Putting Route 66 on the Ground
CHAPTER FOUR: NATIONAL AUTO TRAILS
Automobiling
New York to Paris
Sixty-Second Mile
Sunset Trail
Ocean-to-Ocean Highway
National Old Trails Road
Ozark Trails Association
CHAPTER FIVE: ROUTE NUMBER 66
Federal Roads
Federal Route Numbers
Shield Signs
Final Numbering
Kentucky Objections
Number 66
U.S. Highway 66
Final Numbering
Resignations
Numbered Legacy
CHAPTER SIX: MAIN STREET HIGHWAY
Highway 66 Association
Bunion Derby
Phillips 66
Los Angeles Olympics
CHAPTER SEVEN: DUST BOWL HIGHWAY 83
Black Sunday
Pare Lorentz
Dorothea Lange
Sallisaw
On U.S. 66
Postscript
Part III
From Fact to Symbol: The Route 66 of Our Imagination
CHAPTER EIGHT: MOTHER ROAD
Salinas
Harvest Gypsies
Oklahoma Trip
The Oklahomans
Sallisaw
Highway 66
The Grapes of Wrath
Die Route 66
Ikari No Budo
CHAPTER NINE: FILMING HIGHWAY 66
Daryl Zanuck
Nunnally Johnson
Otto Brower
Joad Family Trek
Woodie Guthrie
CHAPTER TEN: (GET YOUR KICK ON) ROUTE SIXTY-SIX!
Jack Rittenhouse
Bobby Troup
Howard Johnson's
Get Your Kicks
Nat King Cole
Capitol Sessions
Song Map
Christmas Song
CHAPTER ELEVEN: INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS
Highway 66 Association
Postcard Motels
Turner Turnpike
Magic Motorways
Interstate Highways
Interstate Numbering
Interstate 66
Route 66 is Dead! Long Live Route 66!
CHAPTER TWELVE: ROCK AND ROLL
On the Road
The Searchers
Route 66
Chuck Berry
The Rolling Stones
Route 66
Them
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: POP ART HIGHWAY
Twentysix Gasoline Stations
Easy Rider
Cadillac Ranch
Micro-Soft
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: MAGICAL ROAD
Chicago Signs
Williams, Arizona
Magical Road
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: HIGHWAY ICON REVISITED
Imaginary Lines and Magical Numbers
Auto River
Western Highway
Brief Moments
Postwar Memory
NOTES
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND THE EDITOR
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