The road begins in the heart of the eastern quadrant called Munchkin Country in the Land of Oz. The road is first introduced in the third chapter of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Within a short time, she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City her Silver Shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow roadbed. There were several roads nearby, but it did not take Dorothy long to find the one paved with yellow bricks. The following is an excerpt from the third chapter of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in which Dorothy sets off to see the Wizard:
In the original story and in later films based on it such as The Wiz (1978), Dorothy Gale must find the road before embarking on her journey, as the tornado did not deposit her farmhouse directly in front of it as in the 1939 film. In the novel's first edition, the road is mostly referred to as the 'Road of Yellow Bricks'. The road's most notable depiction is in the classic 1939 MGM musical film The Wizard of Oz, loosely based on Baum's first Oz book. The road also appears in the several sequel Oz books such as The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904) and The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913). The yellow brick road is a central element in the 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by American author L. Road paved with yellow bricks, leading to its destination- Emerald City Dorothy and her companions befriend the Cowardly Lion, while traveling on the yellow brick road-illustration by W.
