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 12, 2015

Effort Begins to Build Interpretive Center for Pueblo Indian Ruins near Highway 83 in Kansas

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Photos by Stew Magnuson By STEW MAGNUSON North of Scott City, Kansas, on Highway 83, there is a stretch of land south of the...
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Effort to Preserve Garden City’s Windsor Hotel on Highway 83 Moves Forward

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By STEW MAGNUSON The Windsor Hotel. Photos by Stew Magnuson There are many grand old hotels along the 1,885 miles of Highway...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

A Ghost Road and Two Ghost Towns in Northern Kansas

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By Shirley Darby Editor’s Note: Commissioned late in the creation of the federal highway system in 1942, Route 383 was an auxi...
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Thursday, August 13, 2015

September 2015 Last American Highway Book Tour Dates Announced

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Court Bridge Publishing is proud to announce the big September 2015 book tour for “The Last American Highway: A Journey ...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Two Roads Not Built: And That Has Made all the Difference for Highway 83

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By STEW MAGNUSON Available at bookstores and Amazon.com   A couple of months ago, Sharleen Wurm, the director of The Las...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

Victory! We have Raised $5,100 to Build a Roadside Historical Marker for DeWitty, Nebraska!

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By STEW MAGNUSON I’m happy to report that after about two months, we have managed to raise the $5,100 required to install a histo...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Trip to Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge Evokes Sand Hills Memories

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The Niobrara River. All photos by Alan or Lori Kehr By Alan Kehr In May, we got to visit the Fort Niobrara National Wildli...
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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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