NMLP P-044453 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Wayward Bus

John Steinbeck · The Viking Press, New York · 1947

Dealer descriptions of the cloth vary widely (brick red, terra cotta, maroon, red-orange, brown) and some of that range is fading rather than true variation, so the Haddon Craftsmen printer line and the green top stain are the safer tests

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-044453 for "The Wayward Bus" by John Steinbeck (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-044453, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).