Women Authors (Again)
Travel Texas
Let's All Head to Kansas
Also a Cooking Verb
Name That Musical!
400
"Little House in the Big Woods" was her first novel about her family's life in the late 1800s
Laura Ingalls Wilder
400
Lined with statues & monuments, the Great Walk leads up to the Capitol building in this city
Austin
400
Kansas became a U.S. territory as a part of this 1803 purchase
Louisiana Purchase
400
The giant swallowtail one can have a wingspan of up to 5 inches
a butterfly
400
Song 1
Cabaret
800
To play this author in "The Hours", Nicole Kidman donned a fake nose
Virginia Woolf
800
One of the top attractions in Texas is this city's River Walk, featuring boat rides, shopping & plenty of food & fun
San Antonio
800
It's the Kansas "city" known as the "Cowboy Capital of the World"
Dodge City
800
It once meant to brighten; now it means to make something easier to understand
to clarify
800
Song 2
Hamilton
1200
She's had the "metal" to sell 650 million copies of her books, like 2016's "Property of a Noblewoman"
(Danielle) Steel
1200
On Crickets Avenue in Lubbock, a visual arts center with a guitar-shaped gallery honors the life & legacy of this early rocker
Buddy Holly
1200
Near this president's library & museum in Abilene you'll also find his grave & boyhood home
Dwight D. Eisenhower
1200
Also 4 letters for to flay or to beat
to whip
1200
Song 3
Six
1600
Known for her sharp wit, in the 1920s, she wrote articles for Vanity Fair & The New Yorker 
Dorothy Parker
1600
Blast off on a tour of this place, including stops at Mission Control & an astronaut training facility
the Johnson Space Center
1600
With music by Daniel Kelley & words by Brewster Higley, it's Kansas "Home"y style song
Home on the Range
1600
This machine equipped with a suction or scooping device is used to deepen harbors & waterways
a dredge
1600
Song 4
Waitress
2000
Enid Bagnold wrote this 1935 tale of a young woman who wins a prestigious race on a horse she won in a raffle
National Velvet
2000
Named for its location on the Rio Grande, this national park is popular with birders as it is home to over 400 species
Big Bend National Park
2000
Today the site of a federal penitentiary, this city was the first incorporated community in the Kansas territory
Leavenworth
2000
To become pale or white with fear
Blanch
2000
Song 5
The Last Five Years