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436  THE GREA T PLAINS

Exploring the Great Plains
CANADA
The Great Plains draws visitors in search of a taste Winnipeg
of wholesome America. Its singular attraction is the Bottineau
countryside with its wide-open, seemingly endless Glasgow Rugby Devils
spaces, where visitors can travel for miles without Williston Lake Minot Lake
seeing more than a few railroad tracks, a set of power 85 Sakakawea 52 Sheyenne Grand Forks
lines, or perhaps an occasional windmill or grain Little Missou ri 83 2
Theodore
elevator. The Great Plains’ highlights include the Roosevelt NP Washburn
magnificent, sculpted Mount Rushmore National Billings Dickinson NORTH DAKOTA Valley City
Memorial, the eerie landscape of Badlands National 94 Jamestown
Bismarck
Park, the tallgrass prairie covering the Flint Hills of Bowman & Mandan 281 Fargo
Kansas, and historic frontier outposts such as St. Louis James
Wahpeton
and Kansas City, two of the region’s largest cities. A car 12 29
is essential to make the most of a visit to the area. Mobridge Aberdeen
SOUTH DAKOTA 12
Lake Oahe Watertown
Gillette Belle Fourche Redfield
Sights at a Glance Pierre 14 M I N N E S O T A
Rapid Wall
City Lake
North Dakota Black Hills 90 Sharpe Brookings Minneapolis
1 Grand Forks Cheyenne 281 Mitchell Sioux Falls
2 Devils Lake Hot Springs Badlands NP White Winner Mason
3 Washburn Casper Pine Ridge 81 18 City
4 Theodore Roosevelt Reservation Valentine Lake Yankton Big Sioux Spencer IOWA
Francis
National Park WYOMING Chadron Niobrara 20 Case Missouri Sioux City Waterloo 20 Dubuque
Fort
5 Bismarck & Mandan Alliance O’Neill Dodge
6 Fargo Scottsbluff NEBRASKA 20 Cedar Chicago
395 Carroll Ames Amana Rapids
Norfolk 29 Colonies
South Dakota Cheyenne North Platte North 83 Columbus Fremont Des Moines Davenport
7 Mitchell Kimball 26 Platte 80 Iowa City Quad Cities
8 Pierre 80 Grand Platte Lincoln Omaha Creston 34 Des Moines
Island
9 Badlands National Park Ogallala Lexington Clarinda Ottumwa Burlington
0 Wall COLORADO McCook Nebraska 35 Keokuk
q Pine Ridge Reservation Holdrege 77 City Kirksville ILLINOIS
w Black Hills pp442–3 Denver 36 81 Beatrice St.Joseph Quincy
Nebraska Key Colby Rep ublican Kansas City Missouri 36 Moberly Springfield
e Chadron Highway Denver 70 Topeka Kansas City Columbia Lambert-St.Louis
r Ogallala Major road Smoky Hill Hays Salina Flint Hills 70 Indianapolis
t North Platte Railroad KANSAS 135 77 Lawrence 50 Sedalia St. Louis
y Lincoln Pueblo Garden City Great Bend Emporia 35 Jefferson City
u Nebraska City State border Arkansas 50 Newton Lake of the Rolla 44 Mississippi
Ozarks
i Omaha Wichita Fort Scott Farmington
Dodge City Pratt 75 MISSOURI 55 Cape
Girardeau
Iowa 35 Springfield
Liberal Arkansas City Joplin
o Sioux City Bartlesville Branson West Plains 67 Sikeston
60
p Des Moines Guymon Beaver Woodward Arkansas Miami Poplar Fulton
a Amana Colonies Kansas Albuquerque Enid 44 Bull Shoals Bluff
Lake
s Cedar Rapids x Lawrence Tulsa
d Dubuque c Topeka TEXAS Oklahoma Tahlequah Little Rock Memphis
City
f Quad Cities (Davenport) v Flint Hills Clinton 40 Muskogee ARKANSAS
g Iowa City b Wichita El Reno OKLAHOMA Little Rock
n Dodge City Amarillo 183 Chickasha
Missouri Altus McAlester
h St. Louis pp450–51 Oklahoma Lawton Washita 69
j Jefferson City m Bartlesville 35 Ardmore
k Branson , Tulsa Durant Hugo
l Kansas City . Tahlequah
z St. Joseph / Oklahoma City Dallas Dallas
For keys to symbols see back flap
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