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You Can Still Get Your Kicks on Route 66, the West’s ‘Mother Road’

You Can Still Get Your Kicks on Route 66, the West’s ‘Mother Road’Ever since Bobby Troup penned the lyrics to his 1946 hit song, "Get your Kicks On Route 66," people have been doing just that.

Actually, the Route 66 mystique began a decade earlier with John Steinbeck's epic novel, Grapes of Wrath. The book and movie were anything but enticing but it launched the Route 66 fascination that continues today.
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Forest Service to Keep 50 Percent Discount for Seniors, Disabled Passholders at Concessioner Campgrounds

Forest Service to Keep 50 Percent Discount for Seniors, Disabled Passholders at Concessioner Campgrounds Seniors and persons with disabilities using approved recreation passes will continue to receive a 50 percent discount at U.S. Forest Service campgrounds run by private concessions, at least for the rest of 2010.

The decision to keep discounts at their...
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Rip-Roaring Away on Idaho’s Salmon River

Rip-Roaring Away on Idaho’s Salmon River We are two days into a six-day white water rafting adventure on Idaho's Middle Fork of the Salmon, often referred to as The River of No Return, and as usual, I am powerless to stop my son from adding another heart-pounding feat to his stash of advent...
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Discover the Legends Along Arizona’s Apache Trail

Discover the Legends Along Arizona’s Apache Trail Arizona is one of the West's great treasure troves of Old West history, of gunmen, prospectors and dreamers, and there's no better place to experience that heritage than along the Apache Trail where little has changed since those days.

Here you'll fin...
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Walking in the Footsteps of America’s Territorial West

Walking in the Footsteps of America’s Territorial West What is there about the Territorial West that continues to attract people? Why do figures such as Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, William Bonny and the rest of the Western pantheon figure so largely in both our imaginations and culture?

Part of the reason i...
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