Question: How far did the highway depicted in Bob Waldmire's artwork originally cover?

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November Cotton Flower: November Cotton Flower (2010) is the posthumous collection by American short story writer and essayist Jaykub Allen Hurley.  A Foreword is written by Czech-Mexican writer Pavel Miklo Velka.  The collection also includes letters and artwork originally by Hurley.  The stories and essays in the order they appear in the book:

Christmas Album (Herb Alpert album): Christmas Album is a late-1968 album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass.  It was the group's eleventh release.  The LP edition of the album was issued twice.  The original edition had the cover photography filling the front and back sides of the album jacket.  For the reissue, the photos were reduced to half size and placed in the center of a white background.  Although the Brass' albums were out of print for a good many years, the "Christmas Album" was released on CD in the 1980s (with the CD release sporting the altered cover artwork), with annual reappearances in record stores at Christmastime.  The album was re-released again on CD by the Shout!Factory label in 2006 as were many of the other Tijuana Brass albums.  The Shout!Factory release restored the original artwork to the front cover and featured the original back cover on the included CD booklet.  Another CD re-release occurred on October 23, 2015 (Herb Alpert Presents label, remastered), this time restoring the original artwork to the front and back.

Altmetrics: In scholarly and scientific publishing, altmetrics are non-traditional metrics proposed as an alternative to more traditional citation impact metrics, such as impact factor and "h"-index.  The term altmetrics was proposed in 2010, as a generalization of article level metrics, and has its roots in the #altmetrics hashtag.  Although altmetrics are often thought of as metrics about articles, they can be applied to people, journals, books, data sets, presentations, videos, source code repositories, web pages, etc.  They are related to Webometrics, which had similar goals but evolved before the social web.  Altmetrics did not originally cover citation counts.  It also covers other aspects of the impact of a work, such as how many data and knowledge bases refer to it, article views, downloads, or mentions in social media and news media.

Bob Waldmire: Robert "Bob" Waldmire (April 19, 1945–December 16, 2009) was an American artist and cartographer who is well known for his artwork of U.S. Route 66, including whimsical maps of the "Mother Road" and its human and natural ecology.  Being the son of Ed Waldmire Jr., he is often associated with the Cozy Dog Drive In restaurant in Springfield, Illinois (on U.S. Route 66), the elder Waldmire (along with his friend Don Strand) created the Cozy Dog.

Glyph (album): Glyph is an album released by Floater in May 1995.  Engineered and mixed by the Grammy-nominated Drew Canulette (Nirvana, Soundgarden, Neil Young).  "Glyph" received a preliminary Grammy nomination in the category of Best Alternative Performance.  The album was initially intended to be an EP featuring leftover songs that never made it onto the Sink album.  Some of the tracks, such as The Sad Ballad of Danny Boy, The Face of Order, and Dead, were previously recorded on the Sink demo tape prior to the release of the Sink album.  Later, though, additional tracks were added, blending the entire album into one complete, seamless audio experience.  The hit single is "The Sad Ballad of Danny Boy" which received national radio play on Z Rock stations.  The album is also the first time that Peter Cornett debuted a track featuring his vocals.  "Bottle" would not be his last either, as he again appeared on the Acoustics album.  Two versions of Glyph are known to exist.  The first press, which had a very limited release, has the same artwork as on both albums, but the fonts appear to be a white Arial, with "Floater" and "Glyph" on the cover, and no title on the disc.  The disc artwork matches the artwork found on the cover.  The inside tray also has the same artwork as the cover.  The fourth track "Silt" was renamed "Midnight Ride" when released on the second pressing, and was six seconds longer than "Midnight Ride".  The second press, which is the most common, has a yellow/gold font and shows an Egyptian hieroglyph which represents rejoicing, support, or exaltation, the same is on the disc art.  The inside tray art is different and has the glyph symbol with a different background than the original release.  Some of the earlier releases of the second press of Glyph also included a paper flyer (the same size as the cover) inserted with the disc promoting the previous album Sink.

British Marine Art (Romantic Era): Marine art was especially popular in Britain during the Romantic Era, and taken up readily by British artists in part because of England's geographical form (an island).  This article deals with marine art as a specialized genre practised by artists who did little or nothing else, and does not cover the marine works of the leading painters of the period, such as, and above all, J.M.W. Turner.  The tradition of British marine art as a specialized genre with a strong emphasis on the shipping depicted began in large part with the artists Willem Van de Velde the Elder and his son, called the Younger in the early 18th century.  The Van Veldes, originally from Holland, moved to England to work for King Charles II).  By the 17th century, marine art was commissioned mostly by merchant seamen and naval officers and created by marine art specialists (rather than artists in general).  In part, marine art served as a visual portrayal of Britain's power on the sea and as a way of historically documenting battles and the like.  As British sea captains began to recognize the ability of marine artists to bring Britain's success on the sea to the public on land, some took on an active role in supporting this type of artwork.  For example, marine artist Robert Cleveley was hired Captain William Locker to work in HMS Thames as a clerk, and Captain Locker, interested in employing artists, is believed to have played a significant role in encouraging Cleveley to work as a marine painter.  Captains would act as marine artists' patrons, commissioning them to paint portraits of themselves and pictures depicting important battles.  A few significant marine artists who were supported in this way by naval officers are (among others) Nicholas Pocock, Thomas Luny, and George Chambers.  William Hodges, for example, who was trained to draw at William Shipley's Academy (studying under Richard Wilson), was hired by the Admiralty to finish his pictures from Cook's 1772 voyage for publication upon reaching home in 1775.  Captains also commissioned artists to paint portraits of their ships.

U.S. Route 66: U.S. Route 66 (US 66 or Route 66), also known as the Will Rogers Highway, the Main Street of America or the Mother Road, was one of the original highways within the U.S. Highway System.  US 66 was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year.  The highway, which became one of the most famous roads in the United States, originally ran from Chicago, Illinois, through Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona before ending at Santa Monica, California, covering a total of 2448 mi .  It was recognized in popular culture by both the hit song "(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66" and the "Route 66" television show in the 1960s.

Field Music Play...: Play... is a compilation album by the Sunderland prog-pop band Field Music, featuring covers of songs written by a variety of artists recorded between 2008 and 2012.  For example, the cover of Roxy Music's If There Is Something was originally recorded by David Brewis as a B-side for one of his singles as School Of Language; however, the version on 'Play...' (also known as 'Field Music Play...') has re-recorded vocals and guitar parts.  Some tracks, such as the Beatles cover 'Don't Pass Me By', were originally released as tracks on magazine cover-mounts.  The two Pet Shop Boys covers were previously released together as a limited double A-side single for Record Store Day 2012 under the name 'Actually, Nearly'.  The band have stated that they do not consider this release a true Field Music album, instead serving just as a bit of fun.  The compilation features artwork (created by band member Peter Brewis) in the same style as the band's fourth album's artwork (also by Peter Brewis) Plumb, released earlier the same year.  The compilation was released digitally on Memphis Industries website and on CD on a limited run of 1000 copies and no re-pressings.  The number of dots in the ellipsis in the album title varies between three and five from source to source, though on the CD cover it is five.

King of the Distant Forest: King of the Distant Forest is the second studio album by the Swedish Viking metal band "Mithotyn".  Initially released on "Invasion Records" in 1998 and in the United States through "Death Records" (part of "Metal Blade") featuring 11 songs and a purple cover.  The album was re-issued later that year on the same label with different artwork in a digipak.  The cover was based on the original purple cover, only with more details and in color.  This also included five bonus tracks.  Four of these were featured on the band's earlier demo, "Meadow in Silence".  A Japanese release through "Soundholic" featured three of those bonus tracks (the remaining two were issued on their release of "In the Sign of the Ravens".  In 2002, "Karmageddon Records" released the album again featuring different cover artwork entirely but did not have the bonus tracks.

Saskatchewan Highway 16: Highway 16 is a provincial paved highway in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.  It is the Saskatchewan section of the Yellowhead Highway, and also the Trans-Canada Highway Yellowhead section.  The main purpose of this highway is to connect Saskatchewan with Canadian cities such as Edmonton and Winnipeg.  The highway runs from the Alberta boundary in Lloydminster (50th Avenue or Highway 17) to the Manitoba boundary near Marchwell.  Major cities it passes through are Saskatoon, North Battleford in the central part of the province, Yorkton in the far east and Lloydminster to the far west.

Supporting paragraphs: Bob Waldmire U.S. Route 66
Answer: 2448 mi