A Route 66 Companion
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-72660-4 (ISBN)
Even before there was a road, there was a route. Buffalo trails, Indian paths, the old Santa Fe trace—all led across the Great Plains and the western mountains to the golden oasis of California. America’s insatiable westering urge culminated in Route 66, the highway that ran from Chicago to Los Angeles. Opened in 1926, Route 66 became the quintessential American road. It offered the chance for freedom and a better life, whether you were down-and-out Okies fleeing the Dust Bowl in the 1930s or cool guys cruising in a Corvette in the 1960s. Even though the interstates long ago turned Route 66 into a bylane, it still draws travelers from around the world who long to experience the freedom of the open road.
A Route 66 Companion gathers fiction, poetry, memoir, and oral history to present a literary historical portrait of America’s most storied highway. From accounts of pioneering trips across the western plains to a sci-fi fantasy of traveling Route 66 in a rocket, here are stories that explore the mystique of the open road, told by master storytellers ranging from Washington Irving to Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Sylvia Plath, Leslie Marmon Silko, and John Steinbeck. Interspersed among them are reminiscences that, for the first time, honor the varied cultures—Native American, Mexican American, and African American, as well as Anglo—whose experiences run through the Route 66 story like the stripe down the highway. So put the top down, set the cruise control, and “make that California trip” with A Route 66 Companion.
David King Dunaway has written about American culture for publications ranging from the New York Times to the Virginia Quarterly. He is the author of nine volumes of history and biography, including How Can I Keep from Singing?, a biography of American folk singer Pete Seeger, which won the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers’ Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about American music. Dunaway is currently a professor at the University of New Mexico, Distinguished Professor of Broadcasting at San Francisco State University, and a DJ for KUNM-FM radio in Albuquerque.
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 Pourtalès, 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
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 200 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-292-72660-0 / 0292726600 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-292-72660-4 / 9780292726604 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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