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Minot
Williston Devils
Lake
NORTH DAKOTA Grand
(See pp438–39) Forks
Des Moines (see p448) is the state capital LOCATOR MAP
Jamestown
Bismarck Fargo of Iowa, one of the country’s largest
Bowman agricultural producers, with a rich stock of
hard-working farming communities. Iowa’s St. Louis (see pp450–51) is
green river valleys and lush cornfields one of Missouri’s largest
encapsulate an idyllic image of a nearly and most cosmopolitan
Aberdeen vanished rural America.
Mobridge cities. Its location on the
route leading west made
SOUTH DAKOTA St. Louis an active
(See pp440–43) commercial and cultural
0 km 100 crossroads, a role
Pierre Brookings
Huron 0 miles 100 symbolized by the
Rapid City Gateway Arch.
Sioux
Falls Spencer
Chadron
Valentine
Sioux City Waterloo Dubuque
Scotts Bluff
NEBRASKA Cedar Rapids
(See pp444–47) Des Moines Davenport
Iowa City
Ogallala North Platte IOWA
Omaha (See pp448-49)
Lincoln
Kearney
Quincy
St.Joseph
Colby
Wichita and Dodge City
Topeka Kansas City Columbia
Hays (see p455), Kansas, were once
Salina cattle-drive destinations
KANSAS MISSOURI St. Louis where cowboys conducted
(See pp454-55) (See pp450-53) business and let off steam.
The colorful past is replicated
Hutchinson Lebanon at Wichita’s Old Cowtown
Dodge City
Wichita Museum and Dodge City’s
Boot Hill and Front Street.
Springfield
Poplar Bluff
Enid
Tulsa
Clinton Muskogee
Oklahoma
City
OKLAHOMA Oklahoma (see pp456–7) boasts more miles
Lawton (See pp456-57) of the original Old Route 66 highway than any
other state. This historic road, famous as the
Ardmore “mother road” in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of
Wrath, has also been celebrated in blues and
jazz. Old gas pumps, signboards, and other
exhibits can be seen at some Route 66 museums,
especially in Clinton.

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