Article: Space Travel: On the Back Roads of Nebraska, Small-Town America At Its Best

My intent was fairly straightforward: To retrace the 19th-century footsteps of America's homesteading pioneers, that band of adventuring souls who first broke the tall-grass sod of the Great Plains, suffered legendary hardships and ultimately founded an amazing agricultural empire. Pretty highminded of me, I thought, but how else was I going to spend my time on a five-day vacation in central Nebraska?

Yes, a vacation in Nebraska. Nobody ever takes a vacation in Nebraska, my friends told me. There's nothing out there but flatlands, cornfields and cows. I almost believed them, although I should have known better-I was born in Nebraska. But I had been away for many years-decades, ...

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