John L. Betcher, Author
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<<James and Beth Becker residence at 1011 Jefferson Avenue, Red Wing, MN. Built in 1910.  
Mt LaGrange (aka Barn Bluff) looking at the cliff on the downstream end. 
(The Exiled Element.)                   >>                    
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^^ Smokey Row, Beck's favorite breakfast and lunch spot. (From several books)
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<< The "Prairie River" Nuclear Power Plant is located within the Red Wing city limits. You can see it in the center of this picture, near the horizon. Two reactor towers are on the right, while four cooling towers are shedding steam just to the reactors' left. Bluffs bracket the three-mile-wide Mississippi River valley. 
(From The 19th Element.)
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<< Part of the "No Wake" zone in the Mississippi's main channel along Bay Point Park. 
Looking across the Eisenhower Bridge into Wisconsin. (The Exiled Element.)
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This scene is located in Bay Point Park. It is the tightest corner on the commercially navigable Mississippi -- looking upstream from Bay Point Park. (From several books.)         >>                                                 
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^^  This is the boat house village along Beck's running route.  The houses float up and down on these "gin poles." (From The 19th Element)
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^^ The Summit banquet room on the fifth floor of the St. James Hotel with this gorgeous view of the Mississippi River and Levee Park.  (The Exiled Element)        >>                                                          
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