Route 66: A Road to America's Landscape, History, and Culture

by Markku Henriksson, Susan A. Miller (Foreword by)

Overview

When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" was one of only two he could recognize-in English or Finnish. It was not until 1989 that Henriksson would catch his first glimpse of the legendary highway. It was enough to lure Henriksson four years later to the second international Route 66 festival in Fl...

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780896726772
Publisher:	Texas Tech University Press
Publication date:	08/31/2011
Series:	Plains Histories
Pages:	356
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

McDonnell Douglass Chair of American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Markku Henriksson has lectured on Route 66 in Estonia, Sweden, and Canada, as well as Finland and the United States.

Table of Contents

Illustrations xiii

Plainsword xv

Prologue: Before the Trip xix

My Connection with the Road xxi

1 The Mother Road 3

2 Land of Pigs and Corn 38

3 Land of the Muddy River 64

4 Land of the South Wind 84

5 The Home for All Indians 89

6 The Panhandle 116

7 Land of the Zia Sun 129

8 The Arid Zone 162

9 Through Purgatory to Paradise 214

For the Road-and Before 243

The Remembrance 255

Index 259

Editorial Reviews

Route 66 is a love letter to America’s Main Street. For all its historical and cultural context, this is, ultimately, a Finn’s celebration of that fantasy of the American Road.
—Susan A. Miller, from the foreword

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