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Cody, Buffalo Bill, 323

Cody, Wyoming, 323–24

Collegiate Peaks, 258

Collier’s,
22

Collins, Joan, 194

Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, 126–31

Colorado, 239, 254–59, 338

endless stretches of straight roads in, 261

Colorado River, 274

Columbia, South Carolina, 100–101

Columbia University, 155, 231

Columbiana, Ohio, 212

Columbus, Christopher, 84, 114, 170

Columbus Day weekend, 170–71

Columbus, Mississippi, 77–81, 82

Comiskey Park, Chicago, 345

Commercial Dispatch
(Columbus, Mississippi), 79–80

Conanicut Island, Rhode Island, 173–74

Connecticut, 172–73, 318

Constitution, U.S., 148

Consumerism, author’s first rule of, 278

Continental Divide, 261

Cool Hand Luke
(film), 66

Cooper, James Fenimore, 195

Cooperstown Diner, 195

Cooperstown, New York, 195–98

Coppock, Iowa, 16, 21

Cotton farming, 77

Council Bluffs, Iowa, 8

Cowboy hats and boots, 247, 317

Crack, 232

Crazy Woman Creek, Wyoming, 327

Crime and violence

Americans and, 145–46

in Nevada, 282, 287–88

in rural Iowa, 228–29

and serial “witnesses,” 288

in Washington, D.C., 134

See also
Murders and murderers

Cripple Creek, Colorado, 255–58

Critz, Virginia, 125–26

Crockett, Davy, 291

Crosby, Bing, 46

Crow Indian reservation, 327

Current Health
magazine, 341

Custer, General George, 208, 325–26

Custer National Battlefield, 323–26

“The Cutest Little Shop in Town”, Savannah, 95

Cuyahoga River, 202–3

Cyclists, 110

Dairy Queens, 19, 228

Daley, Mayor Richard, 166

Dare, Virginia, 116

Darling, Lake, 111

Davis, Sammy Jr., 72

Daylight saving time, 63

Dayton, Ohio, 212

De Kalb, Illinois, 49

De Soto Hilton Hotel, Savannah, 95

De Soto, Iowa, 241

Deadman’s Point, Michigan, 222

Deadwood, Wyoming, 335

Dearborn, Michigan, 207–8, 209–12

Death Valley, 289

Declaration of Independence, 93, 148

Del Mar Hotel, Livingston, Montana, 321

Delaware, 142–43

Deliverance
(film), 66

Democratic convention (Chicago, 1968), 166

Dempsey, Jack, 257

Denny’s Restaurant, Haverhill, Massachusetts, 180

Denver, John, 254

Depression, Great (economic), 13, 206, 338

Des Moines, 1–5, 8–10, 14

boyhood supermarket pranks, 106

county hospitals and free care, 225

high school tests, 88

KCBC radio baseball-game broadcasts, 204–5

lighting of night baseball, 196

Mercy Hospital, 224–25

Merle Hay Mall, 7, 9

movie-going in, 93–94

murder of teenage boys, 306

return to, after Eastern trip, 234–35

return to, after Western trip, 346–47

WHO radio and TV, 8, 44

Desert Inn (casino), 283

Deserts, 268–69

Deshler, Nebraska, 243

Detroit, Michigan, 62, 207, 209

Devils Tower, Wyoming, 332

Dick’s Cafe, St. George, Utah, 279

Dillinger, John, 114

Dillon, Matt, 248

Dining-out rules, 198–99

Disc jockeys, 203–4

Disney World, 128–29, 130

Disneyland, 294

Dixon, Franklin W., 45

Dodge City, Kansas, 247–49

Dole, Bob, 245

Donald Duck, 129

Donner Pass, 302

Dope, smoking of, 84, 231–32

Dorset, Vermont, 193

Dortmeier, Frank, 232–33

Douglas, Kirk, 36

“Dragnet,” 134

Drugs, 230–33

small-town obsession with, 313

Drugstore soda fountains, 279

Du Quoin, Illinois, 49

Dude
magazine, 72

Duel at Diablo
(film), 277

“Dullard”, Illinois, 33–38

Dunes (casino), 283

Dunn, Peter, 117–18

Durbin, Deanna, 14, 46, 344

Dwyer, Bud, 147–48

Eagles, 203, 206

Earp, Wyatt, 248–49

Eastwood, Clint, 277, 311

Easy Rider
(film), 66

Edison, Thomas, 210–12

Edwards Air Force Base, 289–90

Egg Harbor, Michigan, 222

Eisenhower, Dwight, 18, 90

farm outside Gettysburg, 154–55

Eisenhower, Mamie, 154–55

El Capitan Valley, 298

Elberta, Michigan, 213

Elmira, New York, 198–99

Empire, Michigan, 213

Empire State Building, 273

Encyclopaedia Britannica,
143

England, 4, 16, 115, 150

first colonies in New World, 116

national parks in, 108

and newfound practicality, 267

See also
Britain

English people, 141

Erie, Lake, 200, 201–2, 221

Eureka, Nevada, 304–5

Europe, 8, 17, 157, 175

bars in, 215

historic preservation in, 129

and size of trains, 322

Everly Brothers, 246

Fairbury, Nebraska, 243

Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, 149–50

Fallon, Nevada, 305

Falmouth, Maine, 182

Fancy Gap, Virginia, 123

Farewell Gap, Sequoia National Park, 296

Farmers, 39–41

and ability to endure pain, 39–40

Fridays, and football games, 227–29

John Deere caps and tans, 6

and roadside restaurants, 334

Farmers Museum, Cooperstown, 198

Father (author’s), 274

and author’s baseball card collection, 196–97

on driving vacations, 10–13

and choice of destination, 294

frugality, 11–14, 113–15

getting lost, 48–49, 240–42

and historical markers, 123

love of battlefields, 324

reaction to billboard signs, 59–60

and men’s magazines, 71–72

as sportswriter, 345

trips to Winfield, 21–22

in Washington, D.C., 133–35

Faulkner, William, 69–70, 73

Fern (author’s aunt), 293

Ferryville, Wisconsin, 227

Fields, W. C., 45

Firestone factory, 3

Firestone, Harvey, 211–12

Fitzpatrick’s Bar, Iowa City, 229–30

Flagstaff, Arizona, 270, 272

Flaming Gorge, Wyoming, 315

Flintstone, Fred, 4

Florida, 182, 294, 303, 315

spring-break trip to, 66–67

Flynn Dairies, Des Moines, 211

Folger’s Coffee radio commercial, 52–53

Fonda, Henry, 46

Ford, Henry, 209–10

Ford Motor Company Rouge Assembly Plant, 209

Fort Adams State Park, 175

Fort Holmes, Mackinac Island, 220

Fort Mackinac, 217–20

Fort Sumter, 98–99

Fortune,
203

4-Way Cafe, Wells, Nevada, 307

Fox, Nellie, 345

Fox, Samantha, 169

France, 340

early explorers from, 317

Frank (author’s uncle), 293

Frankfort, Michigan, 213

Franklin Square, Philadelphia, 149

Fredericksburg, Virginia, 126

Freedom of Information Act, 138

Fremont, Iowa, 21

Fresno County, California, 295

Fripp Island, South Carolina, 96

“Frunnal” system, 260, 337

“Fuck You” school of architecture, 95

Gadgets, 111–12, 150, 278–79

Gallup, New Mexico, 269

Garden City, Kansas, 250

Gardiner, Montana, 321

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 312

Gatlinburg, North Carolina, 112–15

General Sherman Tree, 296–97

Georgia, 66–67, 78, 87–96, 316

Germany, 315, 340

vacationing teenagers from, 297–98

Gettysburg Address, 153

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 14, 152–54

Geyser Basin, Yellowstone, 320

Geysers, 319–21

Giant Forest, in Sequoia National Park, 296

Gilead, Maine, 183

Gillette, Wyoming, 327–28

“Gilligan’s Island,” 185

“Girlie” magazines, 71–72

Glen Canyon Dam, 276

Gold Nugget Trading Post, Deadwood, Wyoming, 335

Gold Rush, 302

Golden Burro Cafe, Leadville, Colorado, 259

Gonorrhea, 282

Goodman, Andrew, 67

Goodman, Mrs. (cleaning lady), 310–11

Goofy (Disney character), 129

Grand Canyon National Park, 271–74, 277, 317

honeymooners and fog, 274

scale of, and silence, 273–74

Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island, 219–21

Grand Junction, Tennessee, 66

“Grand Ole Opry,” 104

Grand Rapids, Michigan, 213

Grand Teton National Park, 317–18

Grand Traverse Bay, Michigan, 214

Grandfather (author’s), 7, 16–26, 41

death, and open coffin, 271–72

and Model T Ford, 22

and tornado, 342–43

Grandmother (author’s), 7, 16–26, 272

and cancer, 310

as cook, 23

and listening in on the telephone, 23–24

and tornado, 342–43

Grant, Cary, 336

Grant, Ulysses S., 317

Grant Village, Wyoming, 318–19

Great Bend, Kansas, 246–47

Great Britain.
See
Britain; England

Great Lakes, 201

boating on, 222

size of, 221–22

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 103, 107–11, 192

Green Bay, Wisconsin, 226

Green Mountains, Vermont, 191, 193

Grey, Zane, 155

Greyhound bus stations, 308

Griffith Stadium, 134

Grizzly bears, 319–20

Grizzly Lake, Wyoming, 321

Groton, Vermont, 191

Guggenheim, Meyer, 259

“Gunsmoke,” 134, 248

Gwinnett, Button, 93

Habersham, James, 93

Hackett, Buddy, 72

The Hague, Holland, 19

Hamilton, Illinois, 31

Hampshire, Susan, 216

Hancock County, Tennessee, 118

Hannibal, Missouri, 41–43

Happy’s Chinese Restaurant, Idaho Falls, 314

Hardees, 54

Hardy Boys mystery books, 45–46

Hardy, Thomas, 85

Harper’s Magazine,
329

Hartford, Connecticut, 173

Haverhill, Massachusetts, 180

Hayden Valley, Wyoming, 319

HBO (TV network), 328, 331

Health care, in America, 224–25

Heaven’s Gate
(film), 327

Hebron, Nebraska, 243

Hedrick, Iowa, 16, 21

Hefner, Hugh, 72

Helena, Montana, 326

Hemingway, Ernest, 311

Hemorrhoids commercial, 104

Henry Ford Museum, 209–12

Heritage Motor Inn, Carbondale, 54–55

Herman Talmadge Memorial Bridge, 96

Herndon, Hal, 149

Herndon, Lucia, 149–51

Heroin, 232

Hetch Hetchy Valley, 299

Hickock, Wild Bill, 335

High Island, Michigan, 221

High school

and football games, 227–29

and multiple-choice tests, 85

students, and Clutter murders, 251–52

testing of senior students, 84–85

Highway patrolmen, 341

Highways

fatalities, 172, 282

55-mile-per-hour speed limit, 51–52

tedium while driving on, 10–11, 52–53, 201, 203

Higley, Dr. Brewster M., 244

Hikers, 110

Hillbillies, 109, 121–22

Hilton Head, South Carolina, 96

Himalayas, 101

Hippies, 231, 263

“Historic Front Street”, Dodge City, 248–50

Historical markers, 123–24

Hitchhikers, 268

Hitler, Adolf, 312

Hobos, 322

Hog Island, Michigan, 221

Holcomb, Kansas, 249–50

Holiday Inn signs, 101

Holiday Motel, Mackinac, 214–15

Holly Springs National Forest, 68

Hollywood Boulevard, 294

Hollywood Western films, 277

“Home on the Range” (song), 244

Homecoming celebrations, 229–30

Hong Kong, 338

Hooterville, Iowa, 6

Hoover, Herbert, 7

Horner, John, 229–33, 265

Horse Pasture, Virginia, 123

Horseshoe (casino), 286

Hospital advertisements, 224

“Hotel California” (song), 203, 206

Hotels

architecture of, 95

movies in, 169–70

House of David sect, 221

Howard Johnson’s, 13, 325

Hulett, Wyoming, 334

Hull, Missouri, 47

Humboldt Sink, Nevada, 305

Huron, Lake, 214–15, 217–21

Hustead, Ted, 338

Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, 179

Hyatt Regency, Savannah, 95

Idaho, 311–14

potatoes, 311

Idaho Falls, 312–13

Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, 312

Illinois, 30–31, 39, 44, 47–57, 64

sales taxes and daylight saving time, 63

size of, 47

In Cold Blood
(Capote), 249–51

In the Heat of the Night
(film), 66

Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia, 148–49

Independence Pass, Colorado, 258

Indiana, 63, 295

Indianapolis, Indiana, 136

Indians, 117, 248, 316

Cherokee reservation, 108

Crow reservation, 327

and Custer’s last stand, 324–26

and Devils Tower, 332–33

Navajo reservation, 275–76

Western reservations, 268

Intercourse, Pennsylvania, 158

International Joint Commission’s Great Lakes Water Quality Board, 202

International Monetary Fund (IMF), 184

Interplanetary creatures, 189

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
(film), 280

Iowa, 5–11, 16, 227, 295

Amish in, 159

and billboards, 58

camping out, and gadgets for, 111–12

on Columbus Day, 172

crime in rural areas, 228–29

and daylight saving time, 63

getting lost in, 241

and
New York Times
delivery, 27