"To show you what he means," said Randolph, putting the helm over and causing the Inconvenience to veer inland, bearing northwest, toward the Union Stockyards.
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Randolph and Heino are going to give Lew (as well as the reader) an example of what Frederick Turner was talking about since most people reading this book aren't going to put the book down at the end of every sentence and do a bunch of extra-curricular reading on every reference dropped by Pynchon or one of his characters.
"Union Stockyards"
The meatpacking district in Chicago, owned and operated by multiple railroad companies. I imagine Randolph and Heino are going to use the railroads as evidence of the disappearing frontier and how they are making America, in a metaphorical way, smaller and smaller. Or they're just going to check out some cows getting slaughtered as some other kind of metaphor for the country.
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