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The first time Peter B. Dedek rode the length of Route 66 was in 1998 in an old RV.

Nine years later, the result of that journey was the publication of his book 鈥淗ip to the Trip.鈥�

In 2024, Dedek returned to travel the distance of the famous Chicago-to-Los Angeles route, this time with his partner in a rented new SUV.

鈥淚 had an idea for a 100th anniversary edition. I wanted to go back, see what sites were restored, what sites were torn down,鈥� he said in a phone interview.

鈥淭here are definitely fewer sites (than there were in 1998), some through neglect, some through demolition.鈥�

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Route 66.

By sites, Dedek was referring to the full range of roadside attractions 鈥� including motels, caf茅s, gas stations and trading posts.

鈥淏ut also there is more preservation,鈥� he said.

Present-day travelers are also likely to find some recent additions 鈥� Route 66-themed museums, parks and statues.

鈥淚n the past few decades the highway has evolved into a linear community, a heritage corridor, an American route of pilgrimage sustained by a series of preserved landmarks visited by tourists from all over the world,鈥� Dedek writes in the new edition鈥檚 preface.

By car and by motorcycle, he noted, visitors from Europe and Japan are still drawn to Route 66.

鈥淥ld motels, vacant gas stations, vintage restaurants and decayed tourist traps have been preserved and transformed into sites of reverence and memory,鈥� Dedek writes.

He compared some of these faraway Route 66 tourists to the medieval pilgrims who had paid homage to religious sites.

Route 66 has been a low-traffic highway since it was decommissioned as a numbered national highway in 1985.

Yet it still has appeal as a road less traveled, carrying the nicknames of Mother Road, Main Street America and the Will Rogers Highway. Cowboy-humorist Rogers, who was part Cherokee, was born near Claremore, Oklahoma, a town on Route 66.

The 2026 edition of Dedek鈥檚 book isn鈥檛 a handy, pocket-sized travel guide of the route, though it does offer vintage and current photographs of sites to show historic preservation efforts.

One long chapter thoughtfully goes in-depth on the subject of nostalgia and its influence on how we think of the route.

The introduction says the book鈥檚 purpose is to create 鈥渁 comprehensive portrait of the cultural meaning, history and preservation鈥� of the highway by exploring what it was, what it is, and what it may become.

The title of the first chapter, 鈥淲ild Lands and Tamed Indians: The Cultural Origins of Route 66,鈥� suggests readers may want to learn more about related and peripheral topics.

The chapter鈥檚 28 pages open with a discussion of the ethnic stereotypes in Route 66 advertisements from the beginnings of the route in 1926 鈥� and earlier.

Those stereotypes included, Dedek writes, 鈥渇eathered Indian chiefs, cowboys as clean-cut white heroes and Mexicans as colorful dons and feisty se帽oritas.鈥�

The same stereotypes were in fact used in promoting late 19th century railroad passenger tourism from the East to what was viewed as the exotic Southwest, he writes.

Railroads 鈥� not just tracks 鈥� impacted the physical landscape on what was to become the Route 66 corridor, Dedek writes.

Railroad-owned land companies platted many settlements on tracts that became the locations of some of the early Route 66 towns and the sites of locomotive repair shops, freight and passenger stations, railroad worker housing and hotels for passengers, he explains.

In pre-railroad 1857, Dedek writes, an army survey crew led by Lt. Edward Beale plotted a military and civilian wagon road across the western portion of the pathway U.S. 66 would eventually take.

He writes Beale predicted the transportation corridor he surveyed would 鈥渋nevitably become the great emigrant road to California.鈥�

Dedek relates the path of the northeast leg of the Route 66 corridor, from Chicago to St. Louis, dates to at least a 1673 French portage trail. Even that trail followed earlier paths created by Native Americans.

Dedek said the new edition has a different cover and design.

鈥淚t has more illustrations and is more in-depth,鈥� he said. 鈥淚t鈥檚 almost like a new book in some ways. It鈥檚 been extensively rewritten and updated.鈥�

Dedek writes effectively and with clarity.

In Chapter 3, he argues that Route 66鈥檚 role as a cultural symbol contributed more to its fame than its significance as a highway.

He credits its status as the country鈥檚 best-known and best-loved highway to a novel, a song and a TV show.

The first was the publication in 1939 of John Steinbeck鈥檚 novel 鈥淭he Grapes of Wrath,鈥� which recounted the flight of impoverished farmers from the southern Plains to California during the Great Depression.

The second was the immense and sustained popularity of Bobby Troup鈥檚 1946 song 鈥�(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66.鈥�

The third was the TV show 鈥淩oute 66鈥� that ran from 1960-64. It followed the road adventures of two young men tooling around in a red Corvette.

The Centennial edition of 鈥淗ip to the Trip鈥� would have benefitted by having headings inserted in the text so readers could more easily digest and follow different, though sometimes related, topics.

Dedek is a professor of history and the coordinator of the Public History Program at Texas State, San Marcos. He is also a historic preservationist.