Treasures in the Dust Author:Tracey Porter Octobertime, 1938 — near Holbrook, Arizona — Dear Annie, — We've been driving Route 66 ever since we hit Amarillo. Oklahoma folks call it the Mother Road because so many of us are traveling it, searching for a better life. It's a long road. Pa says it would take us past Hollywood and straight to the Pasific Ocean if we follow it to the end.... — Som... more »ewhere, miles beyond, are fields for us to work. When the weather's fine, I perch up on the pile of mattresses and watch everything we pass. Sometimes I think about what we've left behind. Sometimes I think about California, dreaming about the white house we'll live in and the dancing and acting lessons I'll take.....« less