62 Vintage Photos of U.S. Route 30 in 1948

LIFE photographer Allan Grant took these awesome pictures in 1948, three
years after the end of World War II. Route 30 connects Omaha, Nebraska, to
Salt Lake City, Utah. Grant traveled west through Nebraska and Wyoming which
is now known as the Lincoln Highway.

For reasons lost to time, none of Grant’s marvelous photos from that epic
post-war road trip were ever published. Here, LIFE magazine offers a whole
series of Grant’s pictures from Nebraska and Wyoming made seven long decades
ago, in tribute to the innate human desire to get up and go.