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Wayne, John, 242
Wealth
and Jackson Hole dude ranches, 316
in New England ski-resort towns, 193
in the South, 97–98
Weather
April in the Rockies, 260
in Cripple Creek, Colorado, 258
Death Valley temperatures, 289
at Grand Canyon, 272–74
in Nebraska, 243–44
storms, in New Mexico and Arizona, 268–70, 275
summer heat, 268–70
and Washington, D.C., summers, 133–35
Weathermen, 260, 269
Webster, Noah, 212
Welch’s Grape Juice, 106
Wells, Nevada, 306–9
West Barnstable, Massachusetts, 176–77
West of the Pecos
(Grey), 155
West Thumb, Wyoming, 318–19
Western states, 343
and driving distances, 275–76
hitchhikers to, 268
national parks, 296
See also
names of states; Westerners
Westerners
compared with Midwesterners, 330–31
and naming of towns, 315
and shooting of buffalo and Indians, 247–48
Whiskey Island, Michigan, 221
White House, 136, 141, 189
White Mountains, New Hampshire, 183
Whitney, Mount, 289
Wilkerson Pass, Colorado, 258
Williams, Ted, 196
Williams, Tennessee, 78
Williamsburg.
See
Colonial Williamsburg
Wilmington, Delaware, 143
Wind River, Wyoming, 315
Winfield, Iowa, 16, 21–26, 210, 243, 293
Winnemucca, Nevada, 305–6
Winner, Michael, 170
Winslow, Arizona, 272
Wintermeyer, Bobby, 280
Winterset, Iowa, 242–43
Wiscasset, Maine, 183
Wisconsin, 63, 213, 222–24
and dairy farms, 226
Witness
(film), 159
Wizard of Oz
(film), 246
Wolfe, Thomas, 26
Woodfords, California, 303
Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 179
Woolworth’s stores, 213, 308
World Bank, 184
The World Famous Prospectors Gift Shop, Deadwood, Wyoming, 335
World War I, 84
World War II, 145, 155
Worthington, Minnesota, 343
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 139, 212
Wyola, Montana, 327
Wyoming, 305, 312, 315–21, 323–24, 338
most “Western” of states, 316
population and size, 340
Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association, 327
Yeager, Chuck, 290
Yellowstone Lake, 319
Yellowstone National Park, 299, 318–21, 338
Yellowstone River, 319
Yiddish Erotica
(pornographic video), 168
Yosemite National Park, 298–99
Yosemite village, 299–300
Young, Brigham, 281
Zion National Park, 277–78
“Zorro,” 291
Zuni Mountains, 269
Zwingle Company gift catalogue, 29, 96, 111
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The lost continent: travels in small-town America / Bill Bryson.
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1. United States—Description and travel—1981– 2. Cities and towns—United States. 3. United States—Social life and customs—1971– 4. Bryson, Bill—Journeys—United States.
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