Tarkio, Missouri

Tarkio, United States

Tarkio, Missouri carries 16 connections with 342 other places across 6 topics, driven largely by the alumni record of its now-closed Tarkio College. Education and science threads account for most of the graph: one Tarkio graduate became known as the father of man-made polymers and later taught at Harvard University, while anthropologist Edgar Lee Hewett went on to become the first president of New Mexico Normal School in Las Vegas, New Mexico, and helped bring about the Antiquities Act preserving archaeological sites as national monuments.