American Patriot
Chapter One
Siouxland
Out in the clean and sweetly rolling plains of the Midwest, out
where Iowa and Nebraska and South Dakota come together, is a region
called Siouxland - a place far removed from the swirling trends that
wash over the dynamic cities of the East and West Coasts. This is
the heartland, the stable and rock-solid core of America, and here
the virtues long thought of as uniquely American are as real and
ever-present as the wind across the prairie. Sophisticated people
say the Midwest is "flyover country," a dull and boring place where
exciting things rarely happen. But the people of Siouxland know that
the very things America finds amusing about them are, in fact, their
greatest strengths.
Sioux City, Iowa, is the best-known town in Siouxland. Only a few
generations earlier, Sioux City had been the edge of civilization,
the place where people stocked up on provisions before jumping into
the wild Dakota Territories. Sioux City was as far up the Missouri
as steamboats could travel. The railroad ended here. The first
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