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| SAUTER,
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| I pulled off 80 W about an hour before getting into Omaha, NE and found myself in sauter, Iowa.. a little cow town with a few wide streets, a great gas station and a small town restaurant that had an amazing salmon steak for $7.95 and you got two huge slabs of salmon... And they have a pretty cool claim to fame.. see the building on the right? that's the police station.. but on April 16, 1934, it was the first bank robbed by bonnie and clyde barrow... and they put the bank employees into the vault and they all signed their names on the back of the big vault door... This place rolled up at 5pm... nothing, not even a stray dog was out and the people were guarded but friendly... |
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| GASPING
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| At first, it strikes you as a little surprising that there is life in these outposts in the middle of farms and fields... a sliver of human activity in a vast plain of dirt, corn and wind turbines... you look carefully at the people, how they react, what language they use, what the layouts are like that they move through & what they find of value... all this in a dusty, lonely cow town environment that includes a hotel that closed 10 years ago, a bank that was robbed by bonnie & clyde... and the frightening realty that this is one of the midwest's largest producers of crystal meth.. |
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