place
The Road of Yellow Brick
also Yellow Brick Road
The road that runs from the Munchkin country to the Emerald City.
First named in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ch. 4 — the earliest chapter using this name. A thing may appear before it is called this: Baum writes “the Winkies” long before anyone writes “Winkie Country”.
1 of 1 claims on this page are confirmed against the text.
Appearances
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, ch. 4 quoted from the text
Toward evening they came to a great forest, where the trees grew so big and close together that their branches met over the road of yellow brick.
Seen alongside
Counted from the chapters both are in, not merely named in — a trail to follow, not a claim about the story.
Baum writes "the road of yellow brick", in lower case. "The Yellow Brick Road" as a proper name is a later habit and does not appear in the books — which is also why the candidate miner cannot find it: it only sees capitalised names.