of the first women to live in Pueblo. She and her daughters married Anglo mountain men. Virginia Tighe, housewife purported to have lived as an Irishwoman named Bridey Murphy in a previous life Sister cities Pueblo’s sister cities are: In popular culture Pueblo as a frontier town is the setting for Louis L'Amour's 1981 Western novel Milo Talon. Many of the scenes in Terrence Malick's 1973 opus Badlands were filmed in and around Pueblo. The film was subsequently selected for preservation by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Pueblo and its Central High School is mentioned in Thomas Pynchon's 2006 historical novel Against the Day. Food Wars, a series on cable television's Travel Channel, came to Pueblo to stage a contest between the Sunset Inn's and Gray's Coors Tavern's versions of the slopper. The episode first aired in August 2010. Pueblo is portrayed as the city where MacGruber is laid to rest in 2000 in the 2010 film that bears his name. The 1959 novel The Caretakers by author Dariel Telfer, along with its 1963 film adaptation, is based upon the author's experiences as an employee at the Colorado State Hospital in Pueblo. In the South Park episode "The Losing Edge", Pueblo is one of the towns with which the South Park team competes. Many of the Colorado and Kansas scenes of the 1983 film National Lampoon's Vacation were filmed in and around Pueblo. Highway 50 East of Pueblo is the site of Cousin Eddie's house and the hotel in "Creede" Colorado is actually near St. Mary Corwin Hospital. The 1980s film Curse of the Blue Lights was set in Pueblo and was filmed on location. Little Britches Rodeo, a series on RFD-TV was filmed in Pueblo for the first 4 seasons. During the 1970s and 1980s, the Government Printing Office ran numerous commercials on television asking people to write to Pueblo, Colorado, for their consumer information catalogs. See also Colorado Bibliography of Colorado Index of Colorado-related articles Outline of Colorado List of places in Colorado List of counties in Colorado List of municipalities in Colorado List of statistical areas in Colorado Front Range Urban Corridor South Central Colorado Urban Area Pueblo-Cañon City, CO Combined Statistical Area Pueblo, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area Notes References Further reading Bibliography External links City of Pueblo website CDOT map of the City of Pueblo Pueblo Chamber of Commerce 1886