Books about the Mother Road

Last, but not least:
NEWSPAPER SWAP The Navajo Times is the largest independent, Native American-owned weekly newspaper in the U.S., based in Window Rock, Arizona, capital of the Navajo Nation. Founded in 1959 as a tribal newsletter, today it counts a circulation of 24,900 with more than 150,000 weekly readers. Our Texas Spur staff dropped by the paper’s offices in October 2025. | TEXAS SPUR
NEWSPAPER SWAP The Navajo Times is the largest independent, Native American-owned weekly newspaper in the U.S., based in Window Rock, Arizona, capital of the Navajo Nation. Founded in 1959 as a tribal newsletter, today it counts a circulation of 24,900 with more than 150,000 weekly readers. Our Texas Spur staff dropped by the paper’s offices in October 2025. | TEXAS SPUR

If you haven’t figured it out by now, we’re all about the Route 66 reads.

As in maps, magazines, road signs, bumper stickers and travel guides. But especially, in free moments when we aren’t behind the wheel, books.

More than other media— even the excellent podcast episodes that have been so informative as we’ve traversed miles of highway— books have been the original inspiration for our journeys, a…