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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462808303321

Titolo

A Route 66 companion [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David King Dunaway ; foreword by Michael Wallis ; illustrations by Robert Waldmire

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2012

ISBN

0-292-73573-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (201 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

DunawayDavid King

WaldmireRobert

Disciplina

810.9/35873

Soggetti

Electronic books.

United States Highway 66 Literary collections

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-173).

Nota di contenuto

""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 Pourtalè€s, 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""