“but devote most of your time to the by-ways. Published in 1923: “The beaten path is often the best track,” he says, I took my cue from Frank Tatchell’s Happy Traveler: A Book for Poor Men, Plus I had always wanted to visit Lost Nation, Time constraints, I could only manage the 423-mile stretch from The whole shebang takes about 32 hours but due to (population ~1,300 counting cats and dogs), just down the road from Missouri, and crossing the Mississippi, ends up in Onarga, Illinois, Of the Rio Grande in old El Paso, and after passing through Mexico, After the land had been overgrazed and heavily eroded, cows had toĬontent themselves with noshing on soap weed and thistle, and many To transport all this good cattle before the advent of trucks.ĭuring the Dirty Thirties, this area represented Dust Bowl, Ground Island and Pacific railroad (and now the Southern Pacific), which used Built in 1927, graveled in ’29, paved in ’41,Īnd today effectively supplanted by the Interstates, Fifty-four wasīuilt along the old Rock Island Line, formally titled Chicago, Rock The surrounding country was and still is definedīy the livestock industry. Their chaps and spurs and feast on complimentary hard-tack biscuits This place even has its own museum, and a motel where guests can hang up The XIT Ranch alone out ofĭalhart boasts five giant feedlots, each capable of accommodatingĤ00,000 head of cattle, which adds up to 125 million Double Whoppers™. Two-lane in the country. However, I tend to doubt it – unless he’s counting cows, merrily on their way to slaughter.įor this road passes through Big Beef Country, traversing remoteĮastern New Mexico, slicing through the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles,Īnd skirting small-town southern Kansas. “high-priority corridor.” He claims that it’s the most heavily traveled Sam Brownback of Kansas would like see U.S.
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