The Women on the Mother Road

It was John Steinbeck who first named Route 66 the “Mother Road”--all 2,400 miles of it from Chicago to Los Angeles. But it was thousands of travelers—and a popular television show—that made it America's most famous highway. Mostly, we think of Route 66 as the journey of two young men, played by Martin Milner and George Maharis, in a Chevrolet Corvette convertible. But men weren't the only ones attracted to the lure of the road. Women, too, found new life and new adventures along Route