I would call this the Holy Grail of Roadmaps….
Sunday, I was going through the Kansas Map collection at the TR Smith map library and found what I would call the “holy grail” of Roadmaps…. A 1918 Hockaday roadmap of Kansas. In the days before numbered routed, F.W. Hockaday marked the major trails with direction signs with the distincitve red “H,” conviently centering on his home of Wichita, where he had a auto repair dealership. When the state numbered their highways, they allowed Hockaday to give one of them a number — He chose the number 96