| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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Book Review

Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town. By Paul H. Carlson. (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2006. xiii + 283 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

For much of its history Amarillo, a mid-sized city in the center of the Texas panhandle, has been a crossroads, a place where people met to exchange the produce of the land for the materials to sustain life on the high plains. In the area prehistoric Indians found rare Alibates flint for projectile points and cowboys found precious water to refresh their northward moving herds of Texas longhorns. Railroads later crossed at Amarillo to carry settlers westward and to transport eastward their wheat, sorghum, and cattle. Highways converged and Route 66, probably the most famous historic road in modern America, went down the main street of Amarillo. Interstate highways 40 and 27, constructed in the post-World War II era, joined at the panhandle town. Amarillo thus became an urban oasis for the recreation, rest, and refueling of truckers, travelers, and tourists.

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