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"Little House in the Big Woods" was her first novel about her family's life in the late 1800s

Laura Ingalls Wilder

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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

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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

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One of the top attractions in Texas is this city's River Walk, featuring boat rides, shopping & plenty of food & fun

San Antonio

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 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

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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

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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

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This machine equipped with a suction or scooping device is used to deepen harbors & waterways

a dredge

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Song 4

Waitress

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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

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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

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Today the site of a federal penitentiary, this city was the first incorporated community in the Kansas territory

Leavenworth

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To become pale or white with fear

Blanch

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Song 5

The Last Five Years