Long before Route 66,  travelers would take the Mojave Road 130 miles across the Mojave Desert.  Join Anthony Arno as he talks with Dennis Casebier, founder of the Mojave Desert Heritage and Cultural Association, about his early attempts to create a hiking trail to preserve the Mojave Road. 

Dennis tells the chilling stories of one or two servicemen who were among 16,000 who trained at the Mojave Desert Training Center for just 90 days under General Patton and would return years later hoping to recapture a piece of their past history.

Website: Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association

Home of the MDHCA library archives

The 107th Cavalry Regiment at Camp Goffs, 1942

The Mojave Training Camp was used as a training site for 16,000 troops and 7,000 vehciles by General Patton during World War II.

Driving the Mojave Trails Road

Highlights from Podcast Episode:

• Origin of the Mojave Road

• Dennis walking 130 miles of the Mojave Road in hopes of preserving it as a hiking trail

• Realizing that making the Mojave Road into a 4 wheel drive road would be more practical

• History of the once thriving railroad town of Goffs, California

• A day when General Patton directed 16,000 troops in  the Mojave Desert as a training base during WW II

• Touching stories of military personnel returning back to the Mojave Desert years later looking to connect with their past.

• The Route 66 House

• The next chapter for Dennis Casebier

Legends of America Route 66  Postcard Book

The Route 66 Postcard Coloring Book highlights 20 places along The Mother Road that you can color and actually send as a postcard or just keep for yourself.