Tucumcari Tonite!: A Story of Railroads, Route 66, and the Waning of a Western Town

by David H. Stratton

Overview

Tucumcari Tonite! blends in-depth research and personal and family experiences to re-create a memoir of Tucumcari.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826363398
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	04/01/2022
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

David H. Stratton was born and raised two blocks south of Route 66 and within a few blocks of the local railroad yards in Tucumcari. He is a professor emeritus of history at Washington State University in Pullman and the author of Tempest Over Teapot Dome: The Story of Albert B. Fall and Tree Top: Creating a Fruit Revolution. Stratton now lives in Olympia, Washington.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction
Chapter One. The Jewish Founding Fathers
Chapter Two. Railroad Town
Chapter Three. Highways and Byways
Chapter Four. A Big Dam in the Middle of Nowhere
Chapter Five. The Hometown of Billy Walters
Chapter Six. The Townless Highway
Chapter Seven. Railroad Blues
Chapter Eight. Living with the Bypass
Chapter Nine. Down the Slippery Slope
Chapter Ten. Some Went Running
Chapter Eleven. The Other Side: Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

A rewarding moveable feast. . . . Well-researched and smoothly written, Stratton's appealing account provides an invaluable story of an intriguing, small western town.—Richard W. Etulain, author of Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West

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