The Highway 83 Chronicles

Devoted to the cultures, communities, history and ecosystems found along the 1,885 miles of U.S. Route 83!

Thursday, May 10, 2018

These 10 Historic Sites on Texas’ Longest Highway Will Blow You Away!

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By Stew Magnuson At almost 900 miles, U.S. Highway 83 in Texas is the longest two-lane highway in any of the 50 states. It has been ...
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Friday, October 13, 2017

Highway 83 Expert Magnuson Embarks on Texas Book Tour

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Stew Magnuson, author of The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83 in Texas , will be loading up a car w...
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Monday, July 24, 2017

Highway 83 Town of Stapleton, Nebraska to Have its Day in the Sun

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By Stew Magnuson Photo: By Stew Magnuson To say that Monday, Aug. 21, 2017 will be the biggest day in the history of the Highw...
Thursday, June 29, 2017

Costner, Brando and Tom Hanks: A Cinematic History of U.S. Highway 83

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Anthony Quinn and Marlon Brando By STEW MAGNUSON U.S. Highway 83 — cutting right down the middle of the nation and traveling ...
Thursday, April 6, 2017

Life and Death on Highway 83

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Roadside memorial on Highway 83, Seward County, Kansas By STEW MAGNUSON It’s not uncommon to be driving along Hig...
Thursday, March 30, 2017

Highway 83 In Texas Book Now Available

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U.S. Route 83 is like no other highway in Texas. It extends from its northernmost border at Oklahoma, passes through the ranchlands...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Proposed Sand Hills Wind Turbines Pose Threat to Endangered Cranes

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By STEW MAGNUSON Whooping cranes. Photo by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service  Who in the Sand Hills hasn’t heard the otherworl...
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Stew Magnuson is the author of The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: The Dakotas and the second edition: Nebraska-Kansas-Oklahoma. He also penned The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder: And Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns, published by Texas Tech University Press, and winner of the 2009 Nebraska nonfiction book of the year. More recently, he wrote, Wounded Knee 1973: Still Bleeding published by Now & Then Reader. Highway 83 runs 1,885 miles from the Canadian border to Brownsville at the southern-most tip of Texas, and passes through North Dakota, South Dakota, the Rosebud Reservation, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. Very little of it is spoiled by soulless four-lane Interstates. As unique as this road is, The Highway 83 Chronicles blog isn't devoted to asphalt, but rather the peoples, cultures, natural history and human history found along the way.
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