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Monthly Archives: October 2017
Finding the center that’s not then losing my way
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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 …
The Bear necessities – part 2
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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 …
The Bear necessities
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Of course, tribes of the First People (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 …
A Devil of a time – part 3
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What is Devils Tower? Setting the Stage Most of the landscape surrounding Devils Tower is composed of sedimentary rocks. Even no prior knowledge, if you’ve been reading this or my first recounting of my travels through the western U.S., you …
A Devil of a time – part 2
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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 …