Texas Borderlanders – Staked Plain

Values – Borderlanders

1. 1. War-ravaged borderland perseverance
   2. Personal sovereignty
   3. Individual liberty
   4. Intensely suspicious of aristocrats
   5. Intensely suspicious of social engineers

Themes

• • Outer Journey: Approach of inmost cave
  • Inner Journey: Preparing for major change
  • Topic: Old economy to green economy

7.1 Shamrock

Wheeler County

1. 1. Conoco Tower Station & U-Drop Inn Cafe
   2. Western Motel
   3. Texas Theatre
   4. Blarney Stone
   5. Pioneer West Museum
   6. Magnolia Gas Station
   7. Shamrock Water Tower
   8. Hometown of radio personality Bill Mack “The Midnight Cowboy”

7.2 McLean

Gray County

1. 1. Devil’s Rope Barbed Wire Museum
   2. Rattlesnakes Sign
   3. Main Street paved with red bricks
   4. McLean-Alanreed Area Museum
   5. Restored 1929 Route 66 Gas Station
   6. Avalon Movie Theater
   7. Murals of McLean
   8. Cactus Inn

7.3 Groom

Carson County

• • Groom
    1. Leaning Tower (Gray County)
    2. Chalet Inn
    3. Groom Cross & Stations Of The Cross
    4. Center-pivot irrigation systems
  • Panhandle
    1. Six-Shooter Smokers
    2. First Tree of the Texas Panhandle
    3. Patriot Peace Garden
  • Conway
    1. Longhorn Trading Post (ruins)

7.4 Amarillo

Potter County

1. 1. Big Texan Steak Ranch & Big Texan Motel
   2. Slug Bug Ranch & Paramount Theatre Sign
   3. Ranchotel Historic Motel & Sixth Street Historic District eastern gateway sign
   4. San Jacinto Fire Station & The Natatorium
   5. Cazzell Buildings & Bussey Buildings – Lile Art Gallery
   6. Borden’s Heap-O-Cream & Adkinson-Baker Tire Company
   7. Carolina Building & Dutch Mill Service Station and Café
   8. San Jacinto Methodist Church & Moe Dogs Grill/Taylor’s Texaco Station & Martin’s Phillips 66 Station

7.5 Palo Duro Canyon

Randall County & Western Amarillo

1. 1. Palo Duro Canyon State Park
   2. TEXAS Outdoor Musical
   3. Park Hills Elementary School (renamed from Robert E. Lee Elementary School in 2019)
   4. Ellwood Park (1930s Confederate monument removed  in 2021)
   5. Randall County (named after Confederate Brigadier General Horace Randal)
   6. Helium Time Columns Monument & Amarillo Helium Plant/Historic Marker
   7. 2nd Amendment Cowboy
   8. Cadillac Ranch

7.6 Vega

Eastern Oldham County

1. 1. Antelope Mural & Bonanza Motel
   2. Roark Implement & Hardware Store
   3. Magnolia Service Station
   4. Williamson Simpson Oldham Monument (Confederate legislator)
   5. Oldham County Courthouse & Library
   6. Vega Motel & Hickory Inn Cafe
   7. Rooster’s Mexican Restaurant & Cantina
   8. Desert Rose Motel (Sands Motel)

7.7 Adrian & Glenrio

• • Adrian (Western Oldham County)
    1. The Bent Door Cafe
    2. Former Phillips 66 gas station
    3. Midway Point of Route 66
    4. Midpoint Café
    5. Sunflower Station
  • Glenrio (Deaf Smith County)
    1. Deaf Smith County – “Beef Capital of the World”
    2. Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations  (see: Quality Beef Producers in Wildorado)
    3. First⁄Last Motel – Longhorn Motel and State Line Café & Gas Station

7.8 Tucumcari

Quay County, New Mexico

1. 1. Tucumcari Historical Museum
   2. Odeon Theatre
   3. Tucumcari Railroad Museum
   4. Mesalands Dinosaur Museum and Natural Sciences Laboratory
   5. Damon Kvols Park – Welcome Mural
   6. Comanche Territory Historical Marker
   7. Motel Safari & Blue Swallow Motel
   8. New Mexico Route 66 Museum & Route 66 Monument

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Next state going west: New Mexico portion of old Route 66

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Old Route 66, heading from east to west:

1. 1. Illinois Old Route 66
   2. Missouri Old Route 66
   3. Kansas Old Route 66
   4. Oklahoma Old Route 66
   5. Texas Old Route 66
   6. New Mexico Old Route 66
   7. Arizona Old Route 66
   8. California Old Route 66