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Article: Route 66: Iconography of the American Highway.(Book review)
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- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2007
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ROUTE 66: Iconography of the American Highway. By ARTHUR KRIM. Edited by DENIS WOOD. xix and 220 pp.; maps, diagrs., ills, bibliog., index. Santa Fe, N.Mex.: Center for American Places, 2005. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 9781930066359.
Many historic American roads have transcended their role as infrastructure to become metaphors for certain periods in time, regions, and ideals. Published accounts of experiences on the Oregon and California trails helped define the West as the Great American Desert. Even after the railroads made these trails inconsequential, their meaning lived on as symbols of the West, referenced not only in history books but also in countless western ...