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THE GREAT WEST

The small mountain streams were really cold. I waded across
them and climbed the banks. Fishing is a bore, but Joe
persevered. Three days later he had caught one trout. Too
small to keep. Too bad, maybe he’d have better luck later.

There was gold in the Black Hills, and at one time, long ago it
drew some really unsavory characters; Wild Bill Hitchcock,
and Calamity Jane were best known. Hitchcock was shot
down while playing poker; holding a full house, called a dead
man’s hand, aces and eights. We drove up a steep hill to get to
the Deadwood cemetery and his grave. That was a real high
light for me.
Returning to Deadwood years later I sat on a theater show jury
that found his killer ‘not guilty’. The jury was rigged back then
and in the show I was in.

We later left Deadwood and the Black Hills heading across
Wyoming. It took a couple of days. We arrived through
Cody, and up that narrow long road to Yellowstone Lake and
the Fishing Bridge Campground.

WYOMING: Yellowstone National Park:

Yellowstone was first seen by Jim Bridger in 1805. He
traveled across the continent with the Lewis and Clark
exposition leaving them on the way back. When he returned
to St Louis his stories about geysers, hot springs and wild
animals were generally disregarded with his other tall tales. It

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