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Part Twelve of the Great Western Road Trip is HERE
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We passed this sign for the "Vore Buffalo Jump". A Buffalo Jump is how Native Peoples killed buffalo so they had food, clothing and tools(nothing on a buffalo was wasted and the buffalo sustained Western peoples for centuries). They would find a herd near a cliff and cause them to stampede toward that cliff and they would just go over it and fall to their deaths. An easy way to cause buffalo to die rather than the rifles and bullets that the Whie man brought with him to the West.
More information on this sight HERE.
Welcome to South Dakota!
The first Rest Area we hit in SD had this sculpture of the frame work of a Native American teepee.
We got off here to go to the old Western Town of Deadwood.
Stopped for gas at the "Double Barrel" as in gun. Nice name for a gas station selling liquor and having a casino inside, right? lol
I went inside the convenience store and they had all these gimmicky wine bottles. 3 varieties of wine with Mt. Rushmore on the labels, a bottle of Cab Sav with the infamous Full Throttle label featuring a skull and "Tickle Me" which was a Rhubarb Wine featuring a cherubic young boy on the label. None of these left with me.
Then there was a standup display of Sturgis Pins & Patches for only $7 each. Okaaaay.
Looking back I should have picked up a pin featuring crossed 6 shooters. lol
Then there was a selection of Pickled Quail Eggs for a steal t $14.59 a jar, with either Mt. Rushmore or South Dakota written on the label along with stallions and buffalo. I took a hard pass on those.....lol
A "Space Cadet" squared.
Though I didn't pick this up here, I did purchase a bottle at another location along the way where it was not so expensive. ;-)
We went around a bend in the road toward town and happened upon a herd, or rather a gang of elk right next to the road, bedded down.
You can read more about this interesting fellow HERE if you are so inclined.
Buried next to Hickok, at her dying request, is Calamity Jane(Martha Jane Burke neè Canary).
It is said Wild Bill Hickok had no use for Jane in life so the men in charge of her burial did lay her to rest, next to him as the ultimate joke on Hickok.
More on Calamity Jane HERE.
This was an interesting headstone....."Potato Creek Johnny" aka John Perrett. He is purported to have found one of the world's gold nuggets during the Black Hills gold rush.
You can read more HERE.
Alice Cary Swanstrom(neè Boyle)and her three children are buried here. The children all died young, only one making it to 18 years old.
It was a scorching hot day when we were in Deadwood but Mt. Moriah was shaded quite well so much cooler than downtown. The cemetery was built on a hillside so quite the walking workout.
Back in town we went by the "Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid" luxury suites. If those walls could talk!
And more motorcycles than you could shake a stick at and all those bikers swarming in and out of every establishment.
We had to settle for driving through town very slowly and taking as much of this sight in as we could.
But I did get to do something I had planned to do, given that at this time(2017)HBO had a hit series called "Deadwood" that took place here back in it's heyday. The one thing about that series was that about every fifth word any character in the series spoke was the F-word.
I just had to make this short video, while sitting in the car driving through Deadwood, of my version of this show.
(If you don't like hearing the F-word, don't click on it.)lol
More adventures to come.
Sluggy
I have never been to South or North Dakota but hope to go visit one day. Cindy in the South
ReplyDeleteJre Great photos and great trip but egad! Do not go near SD anytime near the Sturgis bike rally!!! We live about 50 miles from SD border. (Minnesota) and love SD. We recently talked about going to Mt Rushmore again and other tourists stuff. Love the badlands! Also a TKR update. I’m finally feeling so much better. Knee gets very stiff if I don’t stay active or do my exercises but I can finally sleep and mostly on my side. I had 6 grandkids for 6 days and am so worn out but the leg hung in there but didn’t do my exercises as I should have so will now have time to start in more. You’d think walking, constant cooking cleaning would be enough but that doesn’t hit other area needed ha! Sorry to bombard you with this but I’ve had sciatic pain for years! That I’ve addressed with PT but with the TKR surgery I had such a flare that this hurt as much a my knee. I finally had a MRI and today had “interventional radiology” first numbing, then type of block, then dye to guide the needle and cortisone injection I believe given through a spinal as after they said it was such a tight spot with a little bloody leak that I could get a headache….fluids and caffeine. But tonight for the first time in like 20 years no pain in my hip, leg, knee!!! I’m hoping you get results from your MRI etc. (the radiologist says the block lidocaine would be out in a couple of hours and this should improve more and more in the next two weeks.
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