The Deceptively Dangerous Road from Tucumcari to Glenrio, New Mexico

By T. Lindsay Baker
When the U.S. Bureau of Roads in 1926 designated Route 66 connecting Chicago with Los Angeles, its path followed existing roadways. In the Midwest, some of these were long-standing thoroughfares that received county and state maintenance for years, but farther west this was not necessarily the case.
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