The Lost Continent (43 page)

return to, after Eastern states trip, 227–35

return to, after Western states trip, 343–44, 346–47

Roosevelt commemoration stone at Warm Springs, 89

Southeast, 30

Southwest, 243

cows and tornadoes, 343

State Fair, and strippers, 169

University of, 229–31

women of, 6–7

See also
Des Moines; Iowans

Iowa City, Iowa, 229–32

Iowa Oaks baseball team, 204

Iowa State University, 240

Iowans

and avoidance of sales taxes, 63

character and friendliness of, 9

and serenity, 1, 10, 347

Ireland, 304

It Came From Outer Space
(film), 96

It Happened One Night
(film), 44

J. C. Penney’s, 54, 213

Jackson, California, 302, 338

Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 316

Jackson Mountains, 307

Jackson, Tennessee, 64

Jacksonville, Missouri, 48

Jamestown, Virginia, 179, 316

Janamanos, 204

Japan

company ads in Times Square, 167

tourists, 209

Jefferson Memorial, 139–40

Jefferson, Thomas, 124, 131, 317, 336

Jehovah’s Witnesses, 346

Joggers and jogging, 138, 140

John Deere caps, 6, 19

Johnson County War, 327

Johnson, Lady Bird, 58

Johnson, Lyndon, 121

Jones, John Paul, 131

Journalists, 149

K Mart stores, 54

Kanab, Utah, 276

Kankakee, Illinois, 49

Kansas, 58, 244–53

and Clutter murders, 249–52

drivers in, 253

Kaweah, Lake, 296

KCBC Radio, Des Moines, 204

Kelly, Gene, 297

Kennebunkport, Maine, 182

Kennedy, John F., 5, 210

family of, 179

Kennedy, Stan, 251–52

Kent, Clark, 20

Kentucky, 63–64

Keokuk, Iowa, 30, 49

Kerouac, Jack, 7

Ketchum, Idaho, 311

Key West, Florida, 293

Keynes, John Maynard, 184

Keystone, Wyoming, 335

King, Martin Luther, 82

Kings Canyon National Park, 296

Kodak Corporation, 167

La-Z Boy Furniture Company, 208

Lafayette, Marquis de, 131

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, 157–59

Lansing, Michigan, 213

“Laramie,” 13

Las Vegas, Nevada, 282–87, 304

Laurel Bay, South Carolina, 96

Lauren, Ralph, Stores, 193, 316

Le Claire, Iowa, 323

Leadville, Colorado, 259

Lebanon, Kansas, 244–45

Lefrak City, Queens, New York, 165–66

Legionnaires’ disease, 143

Lewis and Clark expedition, 125

Libya, 289

Life
magazine, 252

“Li’l Abner,” 120

Lincoln, Abraham, 44, 50, 139, 210, 212

and Gettysburg Address, 153

on Mount Rushmore, 336–37

Lincoln Highway, old Route 40zz, 302

Lincoln Memorial, 137, 140

Litchfield, Connecticut, 173

Little Bighorn, Montana, 324

Little Bighorn River, 325

Little Brown Church in the Vale, 7–8

Little White House, Warm Springs, 88–89

Littleton, New Hampshire, 184–89

Livingston, Montana, 321

Lloyd, Harold, 243

Lodge Grass, Montana, 327

Log cabins, 50–51, 109

London, 141, 146, 298

buses, 267

shabbiness of, 175

Lone Ranger, 290

Loretto Chapel, Santa Fe, 266

Los Angeles, 144, 146, 288, 298

smog, 290

Los Angeles Aqueduct, 290

Los Angeles Dodgers, 269

Louisiana, 62

“Love Boat,” 233

Low Countries, 340

Mackinac Bridge, 215, 221

Mackinac Island, Michigan, 14, 214–15, 217–21

Mackinaw City, Michigan, 214

MacMurray, Fred, 46

Macon, Georgia, 91

Madonna, 231

Madrid, Iowa, 61

Maglie, Sal, 196

Maine, 181–84, 192, 311

Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, 321

Manhattan, 193, 274

bus to, 162–63

See also
New York City

Manilow, Barry, 30

Manistee National Forest, 213

Mantle, Mickey, 196

Manzanola, Colorado, 254

Maps, 47–48

Marijuana, 120, 231–32

Marine Corps Band, 140

Mark Twain home and museum, 41–43

Marshall, James, 302

Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, 179

Martinsburg, Iowa, 16, 21

Maryland, 141–42, 316

Massachusetts, 176–80

Massacre Rocks, Wyoming, 315

Masterson, Bat, 248

Matheson, Richard, 35

Mays, Willie, 345

McCarthy, Kevin, 280

McDonald’s restaurants, 54, 215, 275, 295

road signs for, 101

starting wage, 192

McGibbons family, 155

Meadows of Dan, Virginia, 123

Melones, California, 302

Melungeons, 117–19

Mennonites, 157

Menominee, Michigan, 222

Mercer, Lucy, 91

Meredith, James, 74

Mexican music, 262

MGs, 124

Michigan, 207–23

Amish in, 159

Michigan, Lake, 214, 221

islands in, 221

shoreline towns, 213

Middle Atlantic states, 100

Midwest, 77, 97

and absence of landmarks, 17–18

farmers in, 39–41

and foreign place names, 61–62

Henry Ford Museum, Village of famous Americans, 211–12

and nice people, 330–31, 335, 346

return to, 343–44

signs of spring, 246

silence of, 17–18

and small-town stores, 19–20

tornado belt, 342–43

weather, 243–44

See also
Midwesterners

Midwesterners

directions, and geographical obsession, 17

goodness of, 330–31, 335, 346

Milan, Italy, 298

Millville, Iowa, 228

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 222, 345

Minneapolis, Minnesota, 6, 344

Minnesota, 343–44

Minnesota Twins, 344–45

Mississippi, 62, 66–71

percentage of blacks in, 78

University of (“Ole Miss”), 69, 73–74

See also
names of cities; Southerners

Mississippi River, 7, 30–31, 38, 39, 43, 227

confluence of Ohio River, 62

Missouri, 30–31, 39

and sales taxes, 63

Missouri River, 7, 243

Mist Falls, Sequoia National Park, 296

Mita Copiers, 167

Mobil Travel Guides, 97, 100, 276, 340

Mojave Desert, 290

Monroe, Michigan, 207–8

Montana, 305, 321–26, 338

population, 340

Monte Cassino, Italy, 184

Monte Vista, Colorado, 261

Monticello, 124, 126, 140

Montreal, 222

Morison, Samuel Eliot, 131

Mormons, 280–81

Morrisey, Mr. (milkman), 210–11

Morrison, Marion, 242

Mother (author’s)

and asking for directions, 241

on author’s return home, 235

and horse manure on Mackinac Island, 218

and misreading maps, 61

on Reagan, 8

stock phrases, 11–12, 67

use of turn signals, 234

and vacation choice, 294

Mother Teresa, 56

Motor homes, 111, 176–77

Mount Airy, 149–50

Mount Pisgah, Colorado, 257

Mount Pleasant, Iowa, 17, 27, 293

Mount Rushmore, 335–37

souvenir lamp, 339

Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 131–32

Mount Vernon, Virginia, 131–32

Mount Washington, 184

Mount Whitney, 289

MOVE (sect), 147

Movies

going to, in the past, 93–94

hero-saving-heroine melodramas, 256

in hotel rooms, 169–70

location shots for TV Westerns, 290

location shots in Utah for Hollywood Westerns, 277, 290

and the perfect American town, 44–46

See also film titles

“Mr. Ed,” 170, 288

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
(film), 44

Muggers, 140

“The Munsters,” 57

Murders and murderers

and blacks in urban areas, 145

of Clutter family, 249–52

serial, 8, 306

Southerners and, 66

unsolved, 306

See also
Crime and violence

Murdo, South Dakota, 341

Murphysboro, Illinois, 54

Musial, Stan, 345

“My Friend Flicka,” 277

Nakasone, Yasuhiro, 138–41

Napa Valley Restaurant, 53

Narragansett Bay, 173

Nashville, Tennessee, 62

National Air and Space Museum, 139

National Endowment for the Humanities study, 84–85

National Geographic,
8

National Health Service, in England, 225–26

National Park Service, 298–99

National parks

American, 108–12

visitors’ centers, 148–49

Naval Academy, U.S., 141

Nebraska, 239–41, 242–44, 256

Nebraska City, Nebraska, 243

NeHi Pop signs, 14

Nevada, 282–89, 304–9, 326

and crime, 282, 287–88

population distribution of, 304–5

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
(film), 44

New Brunswick, Maine, 183

New England, 172–94, 195, 316

New Hampshire, 180, 183–89, 316

and commercial squalor, 181

New Jersey, 316

New Mexico, 260–70, 316

New Salem, Illinois, 44, 50–51, 109

New Vienna, Iowa, 228

New York City, 93, 165–70, 181, 193, 268, 274, 302, 305

bus to, 139–65

hotel room, 165, 169–70

murder rate, 145–46

See also
Lefrak City, Queens, New York

New York Morning Telegraph,
248

New York Post,
168

New York State, 195–200, 316

violent-crime rate, 282

See also
New York City

New York Times,
249

advertising supplements, 27–29

New York Times Magazine,
106, 203

New York Yankees, 134, 196

The New Yorker,
22

Newport, Rhode Island, 175–76

Newsweek,
286

Newton, Wayne, 282

Nibs candy, 94

North by Northwest
(film), 336

North Carolina, 101–2, 107–15, 182

North Dakota, 340

Northern Plains states, 340–41

Norwegian students, 139–65

Nuclear waste storage facilities, 312–13

Nymph Lake, Wyoming, 321

Oasis Motel, St. George, Utah, 279

Oconaluftee Highway, 109–10

O’Hare Airport, Chicago, 146

Ohio, 200–208

Ohio River, 62

Oklahoma, 59–60

Old Faithful, 319, 321

Olds, Iowa, 16

Omaha, Nebraska, 240

Onion Valley, Sequoia National Park, 296

Ontario, Lake, 221

Ordway, Colorado, 254

Ore House, Santa Fe, 264–65

Oregon, 297

Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 226

Oskaloosa, Iowa, 16, 21

Otis Redding Memorial Bridge, 91

Otley, Iowa, 16

Otsego, Lake, 195

“Our Miss Brooks,” 13

Oxford, Mississippi, 67–70, 73–74

Oxville, Missouri, 47

“Ozzie and Harriet,” 18, 45

Page, Arizona, 276

Palmyra, Missouri, 39

Panama Canal, 221

Panasonic Corporation, 167

Panhandlers, 136, 167

Panty shields, 106

Paris, France, 8, 338, 340

Parking lots, 129, 207, 209

Pasties, 222–23

Patrick Springs, Virginia, 125

Paul Revere and the Raiders, 247

Peacham, Vermont, 189–90

Peale, Charles Wilson, 131

Pella, Iowa, 16, 79, 249

little windmills in, 19–21, 59

Penn, William, 146–47

Pennsylvania, 200–201

See also
Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Dutch, 157–58

restaurants, 159–61

Pepsi-Cola, 167

Perkins, Anthony, 8

Phantom Canyon, Colorado, 255

Philadelphia Inquirer,
149

Philadelphia, Mississippi, 67

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 142–45, 146–51, 181

government corruption and incompetence, 147–48

Museum of Art, 151–52

Pierport, Michigan, 213

Pikes Peak, 257

Pilgrim fathers, 179, 263

Pine Mountain, Georgia, 87

Piper, Mr. (author’s neighbor), 3–5, 9

Piscataqua River, 182

Pisgah, Mount, 257

Pittsfield, Missouri, 47

Pizza Huts, 129, 184, 304

in Carbondale, Illinois, 55–56

Place names

Amish, 158

in Colorado, 254

Grand Teton Park, 317

Great Lakes, 221

Illinois and Midwest, 49–50

Sequoia National Park, 296

Southwest, 316

in Virginia, 123

West, 315–16

Yellowstone Park, 321

Plank, Eddie, 196

Platte River, 239–40

Playboy
magazine, 71–73

Plum Point, Rhode Island, 173–74

Plutonium, 313

Pocatello, Idaho, 313

Poconos, 102

Polland, Reg, 114–15

Pollock, Jackson, 324

Pollution, water, 201–2

Pop-Tarts, 106

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 182

Pot, smoking of, 231–32

Poverty

in Appalachia, 118, 121–22

in beautiful places, 192–93

in Colorado, 259

in Philadelphia, 144–45

in Tuskegee, 83

Prairie City, Iowa, 16

Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, 227

Preparation H television commercial, 104

Preservation, Historic

Americans and, 266–67

of California gold-mining towns, 302

Williamsburg and Mount Vernon, 129–32

Presley, Elvis, 74, 76–77

Prostitutes, 282

Provincetown, Massachusetts, 178–79

Public Broadcasting System (PBS), 216

Pueblo, Colorado, 254

Quincy, Illinois, 31, 33, 39