Ogallala, Nebraska

Two of my favorite books feature this forgotten former outlaw town: Dalva by Jim Harrison and Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. Both are wholly fictional, and the town is now a regular degular middle America place. Happily, Ogallala still boasts Boot Hill Cemetery. There one can find local indigenous Pawnee and Cheyenne interred, right among the infants, actual outlaws, and gun shot victims of the nineteenth century. This is also Arapaho land, although it is most famous for being a cattle drive stop in those wild days.

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