The Highway 83 Chronicles

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

Thursday, June 5, 2014

South Dakota Filmmaker to Explore Life of Rodeo Legend Casey Tibbs

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By STEW MAGNUSON I ’ ve said that the Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83: The Dakotas , is history ...
Monday, May 19, 2014

A Morning Exploring Some Mysterious Grain Bins Found on Old Highway 83

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By STEW MAGNUSON For a road buff such as myself, figuring out where U.S. Highway 83 once traversed is a constant pursuit. The f...
Thursday, May 8, 2014

Stop Nebraska Public Power From Destroying the Beauty of the Sand Hills on Hwy 83

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By STEW MAGNUSON Easter Sunday morning last month, I woke up in Stapleton, Nebraska, at 5:30 a.m. so I could get on the road goi...
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014

The Most Fascinating Historical Figure One Encounters on Highway 83 Is Spotted Tail

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Credit: Library of Congress As an author, when I sit down to write a book-length piece of nonfiction, I normally have a point I...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Take Me Out to the Ballgame on Highway 83

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Corbett Field, Minot, ND. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Late last summer, I wrote a Highway 83 Chronicles blog on Dave Almany’s book about ...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Two Very Different Kinds of Book Tours

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The Highway 83 Chronicles welcomes guest bloggers. Email Stew Magnuson with your ideas! This week, reader Howard Pier...
Thursday, February 27, 2014

The Rise of the Highway Buffs, aka 'Road Geeks'

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FSA photo by John Vachon. Kansas-Nebraska border. By STEW MAGNUSON Whether you call us “highway buffs” or “road geeks,” our n...
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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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