The Highway 83 Chronicles

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

Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Group Raising Funds for Nebraska Historical Marker on Highway 83

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Spot near North Loup River on Hwy 83 in where the marker may be placed. Note: It appears that we have reached our goal, or are ...
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015

A Memorial Day Tribute to Staff Sgt. Edwin L. Magnuson of Stapleton, Nebraska

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By STEW MAGNUSON Edwin L. Magnuson There are undoubtedly hundreds of war heroes who hail from towns found along Highway 83. ...
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Asian-Americans in Valentine, Nebraska: New Stories of the 'Prairie Mosaic'

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By STEW MAGNUSON For Sale at Plains Trading Co, Valentine, NE Readers who have finished my two Highway 83 books may have pick...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Nazi Sympathizers in Scott City, Kansas? No. Just Lumps of Coal: The Stories That Old Pictures Tell Us

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By STEW MAGNUSON I had my eye on the picture of a giant black dust cloud descending on the town of Scott City, Kansas, for at l...
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

May 10, 1926: A Newly Established Great Plains Highway Association Clamors for a North-to-South Road

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Look for the new book Feb. 9! By STEW MAGNUSON “The peppiest bunch of good road enthusiasts ever assembled in southwestern Ne...
Thursday, December 18, 2014

New Book Celebrates Highway 83 Town’s Cowboys' Christmas Ball

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By STEW MAGNUSON The weekend before Christmas 1885, the owner of the Star Hotel in the sleepy little ranching town of Anson, ...
Monday, October 27, 2014

Effort Underway to Preserve Historic Hotel near Hwy 83 in White River, SD

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Photo by Stew Magnuson The following is a press release submitted to the Highway 83 Chronicles blog. I welcome submissions of ...
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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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