On The Road
From October 2007 thru nearly the end of the year they toured the back roads of America and sent digital postcards to everyone in the family. This part of my website is devoted to the series of messages and photos that accumulated from their regular dispatches.
I'm pretty sure that when the last message arrived announcing the end of their trip I wasn't the only one disappointed. It became a very delightful inbox message whenever they would post.
Dispatch 1 - Crazy Horse Memorial
Today was Crazy Horse day. Crazy Horse belonged to the Oglala tribe.
The Oglala was one of the seven branches of the Sioux Nation. Red
Cloud was the Oglala tribal chief, while Crazy Horse was an Oglala
war chief. Crazy Horse wanted no part...
Dispatch 2 - Mammoth Hot Springs
Hope everyone is doing
okay. There is so much to see in this part of the country that it may be a scenery shock when we start across other states. After enjoying watching all that was going on at Crazy Horse, we went to Hot Springs to visit the Mammoth Site.
Dispatch 3 - Little Big Horn
Today we backtracked
to Montana and visited the Little Big Horn Battlefield National Monument. This is the site
of Custer's Last Stand. In June of 1876 Custer and 210 of his men were defeated by several
thousand Lakota, Arapahoe and Cheyenne...
Dispatch 4 - Billings to Powder River Pass
From
Little Big Horn on to Billings Montana, and down to Cody Wyoming. We
spent a day in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, a collection of
five museums that has been called the Smithsonian of the West, and
it truly is...
Dispatch 5 - Little Big Horn
Buffalo, Wyoming
came to be known as the "Rustler's Capitol" and is home to the famous Johnson County War in 1892, which pitted the small ranchers
and farmers against the big cattlemen. It took the US Army to restore order after...
Dispatch 6 - Smoky Mountains
Well,
there was not a lot to see or do in most of Nebraska, Iowa,
Illinois, or Indiana. Although we did visit the John Deere plant in
Iowa and saw some pretty impressive farm equipment. Also in Iowa
there are
seven old German communities from the 1800's...