A new book called The Last American Highway details the history of US Route 83. The highway is an almost 2,000-mile route that stretches from North Dakota’s Canadian border and ends at the southernmost tip of Texas in Brownsville. The book’s author, Stew Magnuson, has become a sort of one-man outfit for promoting travel on the highway, notes leaderandtimes.com. Magnuson will be in Western Kansas Sept. 22-25 promoting his book. The book is a combined travel-history narrative that describes the author’s journeys on the road.
Magnuson’s presentation draws from some 6,000 present-day and historic images of Route 83. The author travels with a trunk full of books and a digital projector, and his book sales pay for his journeys around the country.
For a list of Magnuson's Kansas appearances, click here.
