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Route 66
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Route 66
History of the "Mother Road." Impact of highway on trucking industry & migration to California. Architecture of Route 66 & its decline & fall. Symbolism of road.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
5 sources |
2001
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"Route 66, the main route from Chicago to Los Angeles in years past, began early in the 19th Century as a series of wagon trails leading settlers south and west. As time went by, these trails were linked together as a direct line to the West Coast though country that was not subject to the wild winters found in the region of the Oregon and California Trails across the upper midwest and west. In Northern Arizona, the old trail was known as the Beale Wagon Road, which cut straight across the wilderness in the 1800s. Later the railroad line followed the trail, with many small towns sprouting up along the iron track (Fox, 1).At the beginning of the 20th century, hard topped roads leading fro..."m
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