The road didn’t cut through the land like that interstate. It moved with the land, it rose, it fell, it curved. Cars didn’t drive on it to make great time. They drove on it to have a great time. –Sally Carrera (“Cars” character)
For motorists traveling west on Route 66, the first Texas stop was the city of Shamrock, Wheeler County, just 15 miles past the Oklahoma border.
The lucky name was suggested in 1890 by a sheep rancher of Irish heritage, George Nickel, when he applied to open a post office at his dugout home…