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“There is a highway shot of those awful wind turbines in the beginning of the video,” he says. “If you follow that road another 40 miles, you’ll end up at the Adobe Walls, where 28 hunters defeated 700 Indians in 1874. Billy Dixon shot a warrior off his horse from a mile away to end that battle. That shot brought on the Red River War and led to the Plainsmen Indians being relocated to reservations in Oklahoma.

“Go nine miles past Adobe Walls, and you’ll end up at (billionaire entrepreneur) T. Boone Pickens‘ house on a 68,000-acre ranch. Thirty more miles and you’ll be in Pampa, Texas, where Woody Guthrie experienced the Dust Bowl, and my grandpa taught math.

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