Museums & Water Tower, a Bit of Iowa in the Yellowstone River Valley!
“ We pull off into a little town that could be in the middle of Iowa. The corn is growing high all around and the smell of fertilizer is heavy in the air.“ Hysham, MT. Although this down did not have “corn high all around and the smell of heavy fertilizer", the two lane road (Rt 113) leading to this town, was the best overall fit to the Narrator’s passages concerning their near accident. However, as stated previously, my search was incomplete, because: 1) The then new ~1965, interstate overlaid the first half of the old US 10/312 between Miles City, MT, and Bighorn, MT, and 2) I mignt have somehow missed proper combination of clues in these older ~1968 roads leading up to the MT towns of Hathaway, Rosebud, Meyers, Bighorn and Pompeys Pillar. My 1964 Rand-McNally shows the road I took (Rt 113), as the area’s principle highway then named US 10/312. This 1968 map clearly shows this would have been the only reasonable 1968 through-route from Miles City to Laurel MT, which is the next named town inZMM.
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