Monthly Archives: October 2017

If you recall the map in the entry “A Devil of a time,” there’s a small loop that takes me east of Bear’s Lodge into South Dakota before leading me back to a night in Sundance, Wyoming. The loop approximates …

Kiowa. Before the Kiowa came south they were camped on a stream in the far north where there were a great many bears, many of them. One day, seven little girls were playing at a distance from the village and …

Of course, tribes of the First Peoples (slipping back to a little Canadian, eh) knew of Bears Lodge long before its “discovery” by European-Americans. Most tribes that lived in or near the Black Hills had individual oral histories about the …

As I’ve written in other pages on this site, while I engage in research before I leave to visit a place then typically supplement it with more reading after my return, the goal of that research is to enrich my …