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Authors: Bill Bryson

Wayne, John, 242

Wealth

and Jackson Hole dude ranches, 316

in New England ski-resort towns, 193

in the South, 97–98

Weather

April in the Rockies, 260

in Cripple Creek, Colorado, 258

Death Valley temperatures, 289

at Grand Canyon, 272–74

in Nebraska, 243–44

storms, in New Mexico and Arizona, 268–70, 275

summer heat, 268–70

and Washington, D.C., summers, 133–35

Weathermen, 260, 269

Webster, Noah, 212

Welch’s Grape Juice, 106

Wells, Nevada, 306–9

West Barnstable, Massachusetts, 176–77

West of the Pecos
(Grey), 155

West Thumb, Wyoming, 318–19

Western states, 343

and driving distances, 275–76

hitchhikers to, 268

national parks, 296

See also
names of states; Westerners

Westerners

compared with Midwesterners, 330–31

and naming of towns, 315

and shooting of buffalo and Indians, 247–48

Whiskey Island, Michigan, 221

White House, 136, 141, 189

White Mountains, New Hampshire, 183

Whitney, Mount, 289

Wilkerson Pass, Colorado, 258

Williams, Ted, 196

Williams, Tennessee, 78

Williamsburg.
See
Colonial Williamsburg

Wilmington, Delaware, 143

Wind River, Wyoming, 315

Winfield, Iowa, 16, 21–26, 210, 243, 293

Winnemucca, Nevada, 305–6

Winner, Michael, 170

Winslow, Arizona, 272

Wintermeyer, Bobby, 280

Winterset, Iowa, 242–43

Wiscasset, Maine, 183

Wisconsin, 63, 213, 222–24

and dairy farms, 226

Witness
(film), 159

Wizard of Oz
(film), 246

Wolfe, Thomas, 26

Woodfords, California, 303

Woods Hole, Massachusetts, 179

Woolworth’s stores, 213, 308

World Bank, 184

The World Famous Prospectors Gift Shop, Deadwood, Wyoming, 335

World War I, 84

World War II, 145, 155

Worthington, Minnesota, 343

Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 139, 212

Wyola, Montana, 327

Wyoming, 305, 312, 315–21, 323–24, 338

most “Western” of states, 316

population and size, 340

Wyoming Stock Growers’ Association, 327

Yeager, Chuck, 290

Yellowstone Lake, 319

Yellowstone National Park, 299, 318–21, 338

Yellowstone River, 319

Yiddish Erotica
(pornographic video), 168

Yosemite National Park, 298–99

Yosemite village, 299–300

Young, Brigham, 281

Zion National Park, 277–78

“Zorro,” 291

Zuni Mountains, 269

Zwingle Company gift catalogue, 29, 96, 111

About the Author

Bill Bryson
’s
bestselling books include
One Summer
,
A Short History of Nearly Everything
,
At Home
,
A Walk in the Woods
,
Neither Here nor There
,
Made in America
, and
The Lost Continent
. He lives in England with his wife.

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Books by Bill Bryson

The Lost Continent

Notes from a Small Island

Mother Tongue

Neither Here nor There

Made in America

A Walk in the Woods

I’m a Stranger Here Myself

In a Sunburned Country

Bryson’s Dictionary of Troublesome Words

Bill Bryson’s African Diary

A Short History of Nearly Everything

A Short History of Nearly Everything: Special Illustrated Edition

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Shakespeare: The World as Stage

Bryson’s Dictionary for Writers and Editors

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

One Summer: America, 1927

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A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1989 by Harper & Row, Publishers.

THE
LOST
CONTINENT
. Copyright © 1989 by Bill Bryson.
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First HarperPerennial edition published 1990.

Reprinted in Perennial 2001.

The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Bryson, Bill

The lost continent: travels in small-town America / Bill Bryson.

p. cm.

Includes index

ISBN 0-06-016158-2

1. United States—Description and travel—1981– 2. Cities and towns—United States. 3. United States—Social life and customs—1971– 4. Bryson, Bill—Journeys—United States.

I. Title.

E169.04.B78 1989

917.3'0492—dc19 89-45027

ISBN-10: 0-06-092008-4 (pbk.)

ISBN-13: 978-0-06-092008-1 (pbk.)

EPub Edition MAY 2015 ISBN 9780062434418

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