Highway 50: Ain't That America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781555910730)

Highway 50 is one of the country's most historic but under-appreciated highways, full of quintessentially American places that have held fast to a spirit of individuality lost to "progress" elsewhere.

Author James Lilliefors journeyed on this unique road and, in Highway 50, chronicles some of the remarkable people who live alongside it - from the colorful mayor of Dodge City, Kansas, to the woman who created one of the world's great space museums to a Native American couple in Utah who live on their own terms to the man who paints Mail Pouch Tobacco advertisements on barns. Highway 50"offers vicarious adventure to the house-bound as well as a sense of wonder at what lies ahead." --Publishers Weekly

The central-most of America's coast-to-coast roads, Highway 50 begins in Maryland and ends three thousand miles away in California. More than any other American road, it tells the tale of the country's westward expansion, following a route mapped by George Washington in the East, pioneer trails in the Midwest and gold-rush roads in the West. But Route 50 has often been overlooked, taking a back seat to the better-known Highway 40 and Route 66.

This lively travelogue mixes local lore with history as it "navigates the very toughest part of the trip to journey beyond a book-writing notion and put places in our imagination," --The New York Times


Author: James Lilliefors
ISBN-10: 1555910734
ISBN-13: 9781555910730
Publisher: Chicago Review Press - Fulcrum
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1993
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.36w x 0.89d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/1993 pg. 1293
Library Journal 02/15/1993
Library Journal 03/01/1993
Publishers Weekly 03/08/1993