Panhandle Pages

Panhandle Pages sits on Sixth Avenue, Amarillo's stretch of the legendary Route 66, and the store carries the spirit of the open road and the open range in equal measure. Founded in 1996 by a fourth-generation Panhandle rancher who loved books as much as cattle, the store has become the literary hub of a region that stretches from the Oklahoma border to the New Mexico line, where towns are small and the sky is enormous. The cattle ranching section is genuinely world-class, with technical guides, breed histories, and ranch management texts alongside the memoirs and novels that capture the romance and hardship of life on the Llano Estacado. The Dust Bowl section documents the ecological catastrophe that devastated the Panhandle in the 1930s, with oral histories, photographs, and scholarly analyses that keep the memory alive for new generations. The Route 66 collection draws road-trippers who stop to explore the Mother Road's Amarillo landmarks, from the Big Texan to Cadillac Ranch. The cafe serves strong coffee and chicken-fried steak biscuits, because in the Texas Panhandle, a bookstore should fuel both the mind and the body.