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Acknowledgments
Truant
The Avenue of the Greats
The Dinner Table
The World’s Imagineer
Blackjack, Zack and the Bread Rack
Mawmaw’s Boy
The Best Place to Hide Fried Chicken
Trumanity, Saddles and Lasting Impressions
Pontiacs and Prairies, Copernicus and Conflagration
Toasters and Lucifer, Scavengers and Carver
Soldiers, Saints and Sinners
The Ugly Truth
World Peace
Bleach on the Streets
Byrds, Billiard Balls and Billionaires
Towering, Taking and Mining
Forward and Backward
Eminent Domain
One Blob, Two Kings, Hillbilly Heaven and the Klan
Slick
Bourbon and Burgers and Bobs
The Lazy Way Out
Tears, Charm, Chaos and Upheaval
The Road by Gads Hill Leads to Ellsinore
Red’s and Leong’s, Anton and the King
Tango and TB and Unexpected Joy
The Road Less Traveled
First Families, Big Bangs and Whirlwinds
Clown Country
Hill Folk and Chickens, Rocks and Rabbit Heads
A Different Kind of Hunter
The Ghost of Dance Hall Cave
America’s Mathematical Middle
Liquor, Ghosts and Ammo
A Star and a Steak, Four Daughters and a Card Game
Sub Warfare, Racism, Marxism and Oysters
Killers and Carnies
Worth the Trip
A Higher Power
South by Southeast
The Pad of the Heel
A Whuppin’, A Gypsy and the Wonder of Lard
Love and thanks to the pair who awakened my mutant travel gene: Dad and sister Susan. A wave to six million Missourians I drove past, and to their ancestors who didn’t see me coming.
I found 32,314 stories on the road. Three storytellers showed me how to tell them: Bob Smith, Bob Carnett and Vance Heflin. Editors Mary V. Helsabeck, Rita Dallmeyer and Sarah Alban helped me sift and select and stay focused.
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I remember when it happened. Back in 1967, three boys younger than my 15 years set out for adventure around the rugged bluffs and caves that surround Hannibal. They never came home. Right beside the Mississippi River, workers were blasting a new roadcut to straighten the twists and turns of Highway 79, and searchers believe the boys are still entombed in a man made cave-in somewhere beneath Roadcut 79.
Sounds like a Twain story. Except there’s no happy ending.
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