Get on board the time machine and experience the building of the route’s legend through its birth, life, demise, renaissance, and beyond in this captivating exploration of its first century by Mother Road biographers Jim Ross and Shellee Graham.
Route 66 conjures up images of dreamers, road-trippers, migrants, and nomads. On a deeper level, it is a story of escape, triumph, deliverance, and adventure during the best and worst of times. From surviving the Great Depression and Dust Bowl years to memorable mid-century family vacations, Route 66 pilgrimages became embedded in our history.
Today, they continue, undertaken by those seeking to follow the same path and reimagine those times.
