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ARIZONA

Route 66 Across Arizona: A Comprehensive Two-way Guide for Touring Route 66
Authors: Richard and Sherry Mangum

Here is a full-color, comprehensive guide to Arizona's version of America's Main Street. With color maps, scores of historic, modern photos and detailed descriptions, this is a book for casual users and die-hard roadies alike. The book divides the road into 13 separate tours, each illustrated with maps, photos, a road log and commentary. Detours, sightseeing trips, hikes and bike rides are added. Here are full descriptions of its tours running from both east-to-west and from west-to-east as, sections on the history and places of Route 66, and an index.

$21.95 (softcover)
CALIFORNIA

Guide to Historic Route 66 in California: Maps, Mileage, Landmarks, History
Authors: Vivian Davies & Darin Kuna

This 48-page book is filled with much of what you need to know to discover California's Route 66. Along with details about what was there and what is there are helpful maps and some nifty black and white photographs.

$10.00 (softcover, spiralbound)

ILLINOIS

Traveling the New, Historic Route 66 of Illinois
Author: John Weiss

With this book you can easily visit all 66 towns in Illinois located on Historic 66. The step-by-step driving directions can't be any easier to follow. The the sidebars bring us up-to-date on what's what.

Included are numerous side trips to backroad adventures and wholesome family fun. The guide does not dwell on what was, instead it points out what is. You will visit many old and new sights, mom and pop restaurants and shops.

This guide will lead you to hearty handshakes, big friendly smiles, and homemade apple pie. Now you too can experience down home America as you travel the famous Mother Road -- in Illinois.

$18.95 (softcover, spiral bound)
NEW MEXICO
New Mexico Route 66 on Tour: Legendary Architecture from Glenrio to Gallup
Author: Don J Usner

This travel narrative goes beyond the roadside neon, using architecture as a means to explore the cultural and historical context of Route 66 in New Mexico in four lively driving tours from Glenrio to Gallup. From county courthouses to humble adobes to grand architectural statements, the book describes buildings in detail with constant reference to the cultural underpinnings of style and building technique. Seventy-five black and white photographs are included.

$19.95 (softcover)
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma Route 66
Author: Jim Ross

Filled with detailed maps, mileage counts, and sites to see on the Sooner State's 400 miles of the Mother Road, this is the ultimate tour book to the Sooner State's 400 miles of Mother Road. Oklahoma Route 66 contains 62 hand-crafted maps and more than 240 images, including historical documents, vintage postcards, and period photos never before published.

$12.95 (softcover)
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