The Highway 83 Chronicles

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

Thursday, March 30, 2017

Highway 83 In Texas Book Now Available

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U.S. Route 83 is like no other highway in Texas. It extends from its northernmost border at Oklahoma, passes through the ranchlands...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Proposed Sand Hills Wind Turbines Pose Threat to Endangered Cranes

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By STEW MAGNUSON Whooping cranes. Photo by U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service  Who in the Sand Hills hasn’t heard the otherworl...
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Friday, August 5, 2016

Two New Photos of DeWitty Emerge: What Message Do They Have For Us?

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Courtesy of Sharon Hughes By STEW MAGNUSON   Earlier this year, some 200 people gathered on the side of the Highway 83 in...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

The Hunter: An Excerpt from The Last American Highway: A Journey Through Time Down U.S. Route 83 in Texas

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This excerpt takes place in May 2010 in the Rio Grande Valley.   The Hunter By Stew Magnuson On my way ...
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Friday, May 27, 2016

A Salute to the War Heroes Encoutered Along Highway 83

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By STEW MAGNUSON During the week preceding Memorial Day 2016, I highlighted on the Fans of U.S. Route 83 page several young...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Nebraska's 150 Greatest Literary Works Named; Many Set Along Highway 83

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By STEW MAGNUSON The Nebraska Literary Heritage Association, in partnership with the Nebraska State Historical Society and the ...
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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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