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We were headed East but didn't get too far the rest of that day as we didn't even get out of Wyoming!
Look at all those motorcycles and RVs. *Foreboding music* And more importantly look at the price of gas, $2.34 gal. for regular cash price and that's out in Wyoming!**More Ominous Foreboding Background Music**
Many native tribes(Cheyenne, Lakota, Crow, Kiowa)consider this monolith sacred ground. It is composed of Igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Range District of the Black Hills in Northwest corner of Wyoming above the Belle Fourche River, near the towns of Hulett and Sundance Wyoming.
It stand 867 feet from base to summit. It was made the first US National Monument on 24 September, 1906 by then President Theodore Roosevelt.
Climbers love to climb this thing but being as it's a sacred site to many native tribes I find that activity disrespectful to them and their beliefs. These climbers are also accelerating the monument's destruction. Geologists have found that Devil's Tower use to be much larger in circumference and taller. The amount of "scree" or crumbling rock at it's base is growing at an alarming rate. I didn't want to get any closer really as it would have made me sad to see all that.
Hubs also post with the Monument in the background.
Just me and a little ol' hill.......lol
We found this cool outdoor set up by the town hall of the representation of a jail cell from back in the day. That's me with my cellmate Harry A. Longabaugh, known to the world as "The Sundance Kid". Harry did indeed spend time in the jail in Sundance and took his non de plume from this town.
The town had a nice little museum inside of the town hall but alas, it was closed for the day by the time we got to Sundance.
A native of South Dakota, Edward Hlavaka, sculpted the statue.
More motorcycles?? Hmmm.....maany MANY motorcycles, Sturgis......I must be slow. ;-)
My healthy meal of battered meat fingers and french fries with water.
Nom Nom Nom
Driving back to the motel we passed one of these statues.......
I guess Sundance decorates random spots about "town" with cowboy boots. This one had Devil's Tower on it.
We spied this old dog in an old pick-up outside the Dog Pound.....
I guess All Strays are really NOT welcomed there, just there owners. lol
And the local phone book in our room had guess what on it's cover?
Beautiful scenery! Cindy in the South
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