Father of Route 66
Avery’s involvement in Route 66’s birth and its rise to worldwide fame was anything but an accident.
Route 66, the Highway and its People
This very readable history of the world’s most famous road is told through the words and pictures of men and women who made their livings on the edge of that highway from the 1920s until the coming of interstates in the mid-1950s.
Newspaperwoman of the Ozarks
When Lucile Morris Upton was 25, she gave up teaching to become a newspaper reporter — and never looked back.