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| Sundance, Wyoming |
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| The Kid |
This morning we toured downtown Sundance. It didn't take us long although Dad did manage to find a museum to drag us through. Harry Longabaugh aka The Sundance Kid spent 18 months in jail here. I must say Harry is no Robert Redford if you know what I mean. After our Sundance tour we drove 28 miles to Devils Tower.
Devils Tower was proclaimed our nations first national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1906. That makes Wyoming the home of our first national park (Yellowstone) and our first national monument. The Tower rises 867 feet from its base. Dad wanted to climb it because after all he is an accomplished rock climber since his trip to Rock City but fortunately Mom was able to talk him out of it (when she quit laughing that is). It has been around for about 50 million years and I must say it is pretty impressive to see. On our way out of the park we saw hundreds of prairie dogs but not a single prairie cat anywhere.
We then drove to a little town called Aladdin, population 15, where we had lunch. Well Dad had lunch Mom had a hot fudge sundae. Must have worked up an appetite on that one mile walk around the Tower.
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| The Sundance jail |
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| Mom and The Sundance Kid |
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| Devils Tower |
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| Mom playing squaw |
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| My friend the Prairie Dog |
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| The Devils Tower |
Why is it called the Devil's tower?
ReplyDeleteGee I feel like I'm back in High School, but it just so happens I know this answer because we sat for the ranger talk.
ReplyDeleteThe Indians call it Bear Lodge or Bear House or other things to do with the bear depending on which tribe you are from. When the surveyor came to survey it before it could be a national monument he brought with him an Indian interpretor from a different tribe who asked different Indians in the area what it was called and they told him Bear Lodge but he translated that back to the surveyor as Bad God House. The surveyor then changed that to Devils Tower.
Do I get and A?
A big A+
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