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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
AUTHOR MICHAEL WALLIS (center) and John Paget (right) in discussed Paget’s film “Route 66: An American Odyssey” and his forthcoming “The Main Street of America,” at a November 2024 screening in Tulsa. “There are lots of straight roads,” Wallis advised the audience. “You need to stick to the crooked roads.” | TEXAS SPUR
Books about the Mother Road
Books about the Mother Road
Books about the Mother Road
Books about the Mother Road
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 ...