Narrow Bumpy Shoulder With A Bad Pavement Drop-Off.
….No Place To Escape!

[ “He sees us but he can’t get back in. “ ] “The shoulder is narrow and bumpy. It’ll spill us if we take it. I’m braking, honking, flashing. Christ Almighty, he panics and heads for our shoulder! I hold steady to the edge of the road. Here he COMES! At the last moment he goes back and misses us by inches. “
US-10, seven miles East of Hysham, MT. Does the /\ Above /\ Photo illustrate where the Narrator and Chris nearly met their maker?
…Soon after I left Miles City, I started looking for the likely places that fit the above passage: => A narrow road, with a bad “drop-off” and a “narrow and bumpy” shoulder, followed by a town soon thereafter.
….Since obscuring conditions of a curved road is not mentioned, the road where this scene occurred (assumed real) should have a relatively straight section with visibility for a fair distance.
….Between Forsyth, MT to Hysham, MT, the 8 mile straight stretch of road running East of Hysham, MT, is one of the few places that US-10 has the above combination of ‘clues”. Perhaps it was somewhere in this 8 miles. The /\ Above /\ Photo location being as likely as any.
….However my search is partly incomplete, because I-94 somewhat after Miles City, MT, thru toe Forsyth, MT, has many places that eliminated the old US 10 pavement (plus roadside features). Ditto for the segment between the towns of Casper, MT, & Pompeys Pillar, MT. Any future search will have to take into account the road construction alteration of the many important local scenery clues.

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