The Highway 83 Chronicles

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

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Oakley, Kansas Tribute to Buffalo Bill a Major Site on Highway 83

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By STEW MAGNUSON Perched on a mound on the west side of the Highway 83 bypass in the town of Oakley, Kansas, is a bronze repr...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Small Town Drive-In Theater Near Highway 83 in a Fight for its Life

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The Pheasant Drive-In, Mobridge, SD. By STEW MAGNUSON Back on Aug. 12, I wrote a blog about saving small town drive-in and m...
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Monday, October 7, 2013

Pheasant Season a Boon to Many Highway 83 Small-Town Economies

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The Pheasant Inn, Sublette, Kansas. Photo By Stew Magnuson By STEW MAGNUSON It won’t be long before the small town motels in ...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Lakota Runner, Highway 83 Resident to Tackle New York City Marathon

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By STEW MAGNUSON Travelers on Highway 83 stopping at the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center at Washburn, North Dakota, over th...
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Monday, September 16, 2013

A Journey Interrupted: Monarch Butterflies on the High Plains

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By STEW MAGNUSON The following is a brief excerpt from the forthcoming book, The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S...
Monday, September 9, 2013

North Platte Celebrates Its Railroad Roots Third Week Every September

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  By MURIEL CLARK   “Hell on Wheels,” the nickname give to the rowdy camp of railroad workers as they moved West building the Trans...
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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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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