Word: minnehaha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FMCA held its Grand National Rally last week at the Minnehaha County fairgrounds outside Sioux Falls, S. Dak. The motor homer's odyssey was officially dubbed the Great Plains Buffalo Roadeo, a name explicable only because 1) a sizable surviving herd of buffalo can be visited a few miles away (it had few visitors), and 2) there was an authentic rodeo for the road runners. The rally attracted some 7,500 people and 2,078 motor coaches, many bearing names such as It's a No Bus, Jackass Flats, Big Debt, Stick It Inn and Daddy...
...cowboy, the American bedouin, is the original self-contained traveler, but even he and his coach and his equine van can be found these days at rally sites. A ruddy Oklahoman, watering his bronco at the Minnehaha Roadeo, articulated one insoluble problem of motorized life. "The trouble," he said somberly, patting his steed, "is they ain't yet developed a vehikkle with holdin' tanks for hosses...
...census sees it, suburbia also includes such unlikely terrain as Cascade County, around Great Falls, Mont. -lightly populated towns in flat, rolling wheat country-and Minnehaha County, surrounding Sioux Falls, S. Dak., mainly onetime farming towns that have increasingly become dormitory communities. Northwestern University Sociologist Raymond Mack says a suburb has only two distinct characteristics: proximity to a big city and specific political boundaries, which result in local control of government. Most of the people whom Harris questioned do not even think of themselves as suburbanites. More often, they would say that they live in a small city, a town...