Mount Rushmore, Deadwood and Yellowstone September '09


Five Great Faces
Ruth at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD.  The murals are changed annually at harvest time.

Large cross made of scrap iron south of Kadoka, SD.
Frying Pan Guest ranch and B+B
Mr. Prang has many other works to look at and buy. This one is not for sale.
Gallery
They don't call them 'badlands' for nothing
South Dakota Badlands
Ruth at Wall Drug
Q: Why does everybody go there?
A: Because everybody goes there!  (once)
Who's that guy on the left?
He's not on this list.
Nor on this list.
Calcite Boxwork in the 'dry' Wind Cave
Boxwork below.  Bison above.
Ruth in Wind Cave. One of the largest in the world.
Every year 4 more miles of cave are discovered.
Image of Crazy Horse being carved into the granite of the Black Hills
It will take decades to finish, and they are making a point of operating by donation, and not accepting  government (taxpayer) money.
Nothing to do with these folks (NSFW)
Ruth, John and other famous people
Wild Bill Hickock was holding this"Dead Man's hand" when he was murdered in the 'Number 10' saloon in Deadwood
Wild Bill Hickcock's grave in the Mt. Moriah cemetery, Deadwood, SD
Rootin' Tootin' Roothie in front of No. 10 Saloon on the streets of Deadwood.
'Wild Bill' was actually killed across the street.
Devil's Tower, Wy.
Laccolith? or plug?
Listen It calls.
Camping 'wild' at a Coalbed Methane wellsite in Wyoming
In the Tensleep Canyon
An Em Hansen Mystery novel
Us at the Elk antler arch in Jackson Hole, Wy.
The antlers are recovered from the nearby Elk Refuge
The Tetons with the Snake River in the foreground.
A  normal fault with 30,000' of displacement.
Who is this Adams guy? Copycat!
Us at the Tetons
Mount Moran and the Snake River
The lobby of Old Faithful Inn
Boardwalk to the Grand Geyser
Squinting us at Grand Geyser
Morning Glory Pool.
The colors are changing recently because of litter reducing the heat and changing the chemistry of the water , which in turn changes the distribution of  bacteria.
Us at Grotto Geyser with smoke from a forest fire in the distance
The unique Kaman K-Max  helicopter fighting the forest fire.
Pyrocumulus cloud
Us at the Clepsydra geyser
"Old Faithful" living up to its name

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