ROUTE 36
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March 2018: ROUTE 36 – NEWSLETTER #2
A “Perfect 36”—What’s the story behind this curvaceous image promoting Route 36? (It’s a “teaser” to get you to read to the end of this newsletter.) This is the second of an occasional blog to keep you posted on the progress of my journey along US Highway 36—a much-neglected historic and scenic by-way through Heartland America. [...]
November 2017: ROUTE 36 – NEWSLETTER #1
This is the first of a very occasional newsletter to keep you posted on the progress of my journey along US Highway 36—a much-neglected historic and scenic by-way through the Heartland of America. Over the past year I’ve met a lot of people out on Route 36, especially in Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois. I’m working my way eastward from Denver, though the guidebook will be organized from east to west—the way American settlement moved. [...]
Route 36: Ohio to Colorado—America’s Heartland Highway
by Allan McAllister Ferguson
From the foothills of the Appalachians to the soaring Rocky Mountains . . . Here’s your guide to US36—a great American road trip through the landscapes and communities of the nation’s Heartland. Leave the Interstates behind. Explore the “roads less traveled.” Discover a treasure trove of American history. Route 36 has it all. From Ohio to Colorado, this is Allan Ferguson’s love letter to the Midwest. When you read the Introduction, you’ll want to buy the book!