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The New Mexico-California trade continued until the mid-1850s, when a shift to the use of freight wagons and the development of wagon trails made the old pack trail route obsolete. By 1846 both New Mexico and California had been annexed as U.S. territories following its victory in the Mexican–American War of 1846–1848.
In honor of the great American road trip, here's a guide to some top cross-country road trip stops along Interstates 10, 40, 70, 80, 90, and 95, as well as the legendary former Route 66, much of ...
The Mother Road. America’s Highway. The Main Street of America. The Will Rogers Highway. Route 66 goes by many names, but no matter how travelers refer to it, there’s one constant everyone can ...
Meramec River U.S. 66 Bridge - J421, Eureka (see Route 66 State Park, Times Beach) Big Chief Restaurant, Wildwood ; Red Cedar Inn, Pacific (media:Red Cedar Inn Pacific MO-med.jpg) Wagon Wheel Motel, Cuba ; Pulaski County Courthouse, Waynesville ; Gillioz Theatre, Springfield ; Rock Fountain Court, Springfield
Secret Route 66: a guide to the weird, wonderful, and obscure. St. Louis, MO: Reedy Press. ISBN 978-1681061078. OCLC 980845474. Schneider, Jill (1991). Route 66 Across New Mexico: A Wanderer's Guide. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-1280-8. Scott, Quinta; Kelly, Susan Croce (1988). Route 66: A Highway and Its People ...
In 1926, the section west of Las Vegas, New Mexico, to Los Angeles, California, was certified as U.S. Highway 66, (now better known as U.S. Route 66) by the AASHTO, as was a section in the St. Louis, Missouri area (Manchester Road). After U.S. Route 66 was decommissioned, in eastern California portions of the road were renamed with the old name ...
U.S. Route 66 (US 66, Route 66) is a part of a former United States Numbered Highway in the state of California that ran from the west in Santa Monica on the Pacific Ocean through Los Angeles and San Bernardino to Needles at the Arizona state line. It was truncated during the 1964 renumbering and its signage removed in 1974.
For many the final leg of the journey involved travel down the lower Columbia River to Fort Vancouver. [96] This part of the Oregon Trail, the treacherous stretch from The Dalles to below the Cascades, could not be traversed by horses or wagons (only watercraft, at great risk). This prompted the 1846 construction of the Barlow Road. [97]