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| Thousands of prairie dogs roamed the parklands, too. |
Behind the visitors' center of the South unit of the park is Teddy Roosevelt's Maltese Ranch cabin. He and his ranch hands lived here. |
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| A herd of buffaloes wandered up and looked in our windows as we had lunch in this parking lot. It was pretty exciting. |
Youngsters traveled with the herds. It was great to know they were healthy and reproducing, yanked back from the brink of extinction. |
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| There is a path you can walk that goes all the way around Devil's Tower in Wyoming. From it you see every aspect of the lone sentinel. |
Devil's Tower is an important sacred site for peoples of the First Nation. There are prayer cloths tied to trees around the tower. Climbers are asked to stay off the tower during June, the most sacred month. |
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| This is the most climable side of the tower, as you can see from the ridges and ledges. |
The Sons of the Pioneers, cowboys from our era, sing in Branson, Missouri. We spent Labor Day weekend in Branson, while Hurricane Frances was ripping around in Florida. |
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| We got as far as Mississippi when Ivan threatened. We planned to hole up there; but then Jim and Ellen Shelton, our friends in Tallahasse, invited us to wait out the storm with them in northern Florida. |
We spent four days at their house having a good time and watching Ivan make his moves. When Ivan swung west, we went south. |
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| Finally, on the early evening of September 15, BlueVan and Little Mobey parked in our driveway. It was a grand trip, more than grand, but it's always good to be home again. |
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