Mitchell and the Corn Palace, South Dakota. Start Badlands, Caleba's
Corn, corn, cornSaturday, Aug. 27, 2005. Slept at campsites. Corn, corn. The Missouri River is beautiful. Hunting is a way of life here. I stopped at Cabela’s outdoor store. An incredible place that caters to hunters. This deserves a full write up-later and pictures. Don’t dare mention animal rights within 500 miles of this place. There were hundreds of animal trophy heads on the walls, thousand of shotguns and handguns and thousands of fishing rods and reels. No exaggeration. The display of stuffed wildlife at the end of the store, depicting all the animals that could be hunted locally, was museum quality and breathtaking.
Visited a settler’s homestead made of sod, typical of this area and written about in Laura Ingall Wilders, Little House on the Prairie. See www.whiteprairiedogs.com For the story on the homestead I visited. I took some great pictures which will be posted later.
Entered the Badlands. Breathtaking and beautiful. 50 miles of scenery. Up and down the wall of glacial deposits of sculptured canyons and buttes. The battle of Wounded Knee took place here and the local Indian were granted freedom to memorialize the battle with freedom of expression on the historical plaques. A tragedy.
Friday. Aug. 26, 2005. Corn, corn, corn.
Corn, corn, corn but this time they community did something spectacular with it. They built an arena out of it and decorated it with beautiful murals made out of corn. "They" change the murals and the exterior every year and the photographs of the murals throughout the past hundred years are fascinating. Well worth a visit. What is fascinating about visiting this type of venue are the pictures displayed of the community and the way of life. To think that much of the land wasn’t developed until the mid to late 1800’s; the progress since then is impressive. but this time they community did something spectacular with it. They built an arena out of it and decorated it with beautiful murals made out of corn. "They" change the murals and the exteror every year and the photographs of the murals throughout the ast hundred years are fascinating. Well worth a visit. What is fascinating about visiting this type of venue are the hist
Visited a settler’s homestead made of sod, typical of this area and written about in Laura Ingall Wilders, Little House on the Prairie. See www.whiteprairiedogs.com For the story on the homestead I visited. I took some great pictures which will be posted later.
Entered the Badlands. Breathtaking and beautiful. 50 miles of scenery. Up and down the wall of glacial deposits of sculptured canyons and buttes. The battle of Wounded Knee took place here and the local Indian were granted freedom to memorialize the battle with freedom of expression on the historical plaques. A tragedy.
Friday. Aug. 26, 2005. Corn, corn, corn.
Corn, corn, corn but this time they community did something spectacular with it. They built an arena out of it and decorated it with beautiful murals made out of corn. "They" change the murals and the exterior every year and the photographs of the murals throughout the past hundred years are fascinating. Well worth a visit. What is fascinating about visiting this type of venue are the pictures displayed of the community and the way of life. To think that much of the land wasn’t developed until the mid to late 1800’s; the progress since then is impressive. but this time they community did something spectacular with it. They built an arena out of it and decorated it with beautiful murals made out of corn. "They" change the murals and the exteror every year and the photographs of the murals throughout the ast hundred years are fascinating. Well worth a visit. What is fascinating about visiting this type of venue are the hist
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