The Highway 83 Chronicles

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

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

A Boy, A Girl and A First Kiss on Highway 83

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By DAKOTA WIND We meet again Highway 83. It isn’t very often that I cross paths with you, but when I do I can remember almost eac...
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Monday, August 26, 2013

Tracking Lewis & Clark's Dog and the Corps of Discovery on Highway 83

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By STEW MAGNUSON Statues of famous men and women can be found all along Highway 83, but down along the Missouri River on its banks near Wa...
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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Book Review: Prairie Blitz: High School Football on America's 50 Yard Line

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By STEW MAGNUSON   It’s about time for the “Friday night lights.” All up and down Highway 83, from Westhope, N.D, to Browns...
Monday, August 12, 2013

Saving the Smalltown Drive-Ins and Movie Theaters on Highway 83

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By STEW MAGNUSON These are tough times for small town movie theaters and drive-in movies. Already under pressure from on-dem...
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Friday, August 2, 2013

Will it Be Ruins or Restoration for McCook Army Air Base?

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By STEW MAGNUSON I drove amongst the giant, incongruous World War II hangars on the flatlands northwest of McCook, Nebraska, think...
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Thursday, July 25, 2013

Ode to the Small Town Water Tower

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By STEW MAGNUSON CLICK HERE TO ORDER “If you have ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sis...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Q&A With Dutch Photographer Maarten Laupman: Co-Author of the First Book About Highway 83

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By STEW MAGNUSON It might surprise many to know that the first book devoted to Highway 83 is written in Dutch. In 2007, photograp...
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Stew Magnuson
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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