IN NORTH DAKOTA
Introducing…..BUFFY THE BUFFALO!
Frankie on another run in South Dakota….
The Stockades….
Why do white people put up giant phallus’s to honor people….this one if for a female school teacher?
This horse had an itch he was trying to scratch!
In the museum at the Crazy Horse Memorial….
Before the laser light show at the Crazy Horse Memorial…
My lovely sister wine tasting…
The town of Custer, South Dakota at night….
JUANITA AND FRANKIE RIDE INTO DEADWOOD
Frankie guards the entrance…..
Sad recreation of Wild Bill’s last game….
my attempts at artistic shots of Deadwood….
Frankie looking for a gunfight…
Guitar player entertaining those who await the shootout…
Would you mess with this young lad?
Juanita indulges in a shot of whisky to steel her nerves…..GOOD LORD LOOK HOW MANY SHE HAS LINED UP…(joking! half of those are mine)
Those guitar pickers are not to be trusted as is evidenced by this photo…he quickly joined in the shooting….
Frankie questioning the lethal hobby of gun-fighting contemplates becoming a Samurai….
all is abandoned when thoughts turn to finding a good place to eat… (gotta admire a young lad whose not afraid to hug his mom in public)
By this time Juanita and I need to whet our whistles again….We were walking not driving by the way.
Like my Daddy used to say GRAB IT AND GROWL…
DEADWOOD 3 Mt. Moriah Cemetery
I took this photo because Mt. Moriah Cemetery is on a hill that kicked my ass this is about half way up…most people drive. Even the people at the visitors center were impressed!
Calamity Jane wanted to be buried next to Wild Bill …
people leave a lot of offerings at her grave.
This is a whole section of the Jewish people who died in Deadwood, there are “streets” that section off the cemetery and all of the names here are out of the Torah.
To see Sheriff Bullocks grave is another uphill hike….
Looking down on deadwood from the cemetery.
DEADWOOD 2 with a bit of Lead and the Mickelson Trail
Here are the rest of the Deadwood photos except for a separate post on Mt. Moriah Cemetary…Deadwood while there is plenty of history to explore is a small Reno I think half of down town is casinos and I’m not a gambler. I could have visited some of the museums but since it was the first sunny day in awhile I wanted to hike the Black Hills and there is a trail that runs on old railroad tracks called Mickelson Trail. I picked it up in Lead, South Dakota because that is where one of the locals told me was one of the best trails. It was a good hike, good to be outdoors on a trail hiking but the scenery was ok another half hour of driving and the scenery on the trail would have been better but like I said I was happy for a sunny day!
This is a little park that a church put up….this is what churches should be in the open air!
The town of Lead is known for its mining….
and Mickelson Trail….
DEADWOOD
My schedule has been all sorts of messed up since the flooding has hit Eastern Montana….I wanted to go camping but ended up in Gillette, Wyoming on Friday. I was undecided how to spend my weekend which direction to go but I knew I wouldn’t be camping..to cold and wet and the weather forecast was not promising. I woke up at 4:30 in the morning wasn’t feeling too well could have used more sleep but after about fifteen minutes….to hell with it I don’t have time to be tired or sick threw on my clothes and headed out the hotel door and got on the interstate to Deadwood, South Dakota. About a half hour later the sun peeked over the horizon.
Deadwood is located in the Black Hills…with my love and romance with the West there is never a moment that I am not aware of conflicting emotions. These mountains were sacred to Native Americans and now that the gold rush is over it is a white tourist destination….Sturgis, Mount Rushmore are each within about an hour. I can’t wait to explore the history one look at the map this is an area rich in history, geology, and wildlife.
The whole town is a historical site….I arrived about 6:30 long before anyone else was awake except for a couple of guys emptying trash and a few employees leaving and starting work in one of the many casinos. I had the whole town to myself for another hour or two. The day was beautiful!
carving of Calamity Jane in a store front…
ANNA MAE 56/Grrrrrr!!!
As some of you know I have been on vacation of the road trip sort….It was good to get away from the Anna Mae story, the posts were getting short because I would get pissed off…outraged. When I was young grown-ups would tell me that I was too ideal and that the world was not ideal….they said I would change. I didn’t. In fact as an adult and encountering opportunities to further my career, money or social status in exchange for a bit of corruption….found I could not live with myself. Having faced the choice….I am even more adamant in my beliefs…there is a whole process when it comes to choosing between the right thing and the wrong thing.
I used to worry the trial would be over long before I was halfway through the book after being in the desert for a week I had the thought that it was all waiting for me. How is that for ego??
What I need to say is how terribly wrong all of this is.
All excerpts are in italics and from THE UNQUIET GRAVE by Steve Hendricks.
CHAPTER 9
Grrrrr. Chapter 9 is about Bill Janklow….not sure that man’s name should even be uttered on my blog ever again. One time I was listening to G.Gordon Liddy and he was on a tangent because Ted Turner had made some statement that the TEN COMMANDMENTS didn’t mean anything anymore…G. Gordon Liddy in that correct, precise, enunciation of the English language of his said something to the effect of…”Well, I guess if you have broken all ten commandments they would not mean anything to you”. Kind of reminds me of BJ (interesting initials).
Soooo President Ford nominates this accused rapist and future murderer to the board of directors of Legal Services Corporation. By the way my Dad drank and drove every single day of my life growing up…never ran over anyone. Didn’t drive like a fucking idiot like this BJ. My Dad was courteous and would pull over if a car wanted to pass him….I still do that (pull over not drink and drive!).
This position requires Senate confirmation and when he was called for questioning he had disappeared. Apparently he flew home..
He told them he had left the hearing room when a network television crew arrived because he did not care for his past to be debated before the entire nation.” (Waaaahhhh! Is this a Republican or South Dakota trait?? Send that man a crying towel.)
Jimmie Durham , who ran a group called the International Indian Treaty Council (an offshoot of AIM that worked for indigenous rights worldwide)…..told the Senate that Janklow had raped Eagle Deer (Jancita) and had committed other crimes as enumerated in Judge Gonzalez’s Rosebud courtroom. Durham also said that since becoming attorney general, Janklow had sent eighty state troopers to assault a pork plant that was seized by Indians on the Yankton Reservation. The assault was illegal because only the federal and tribal governments had jurisdiction over reservation crimes. Janklow’s troopers had no more authority to quell a disturbance on Yankton than in Omaha.
Grrrrrr. You might think that his cowardly actions would raise some suspicions but the FBI had already investigated him and found the rape charges baseless….now the White House turned to the FBI again (too fucking tired to rant about that!
GUESS WHAT??? Those corrupt fucks at the FBI said
…”these allegations are simply unfounded”
Senator Jacob Javits of New York….declared the exoneration of Republican Janklow by a Democrat-controlled Senate (Yet another reason to be a Socialist!) “a vindication of your system….We all can be very proud (Apparently Jacob Javits has very low standards) that this was the result, and you should take satisfaction from it rather than laboring under any feeling that you have been harassed. (Jacob Javis did it ever occur to you that bj felt harassed because he was….guilty???) You have really proved something very, very useful and important to our country.” (INDEED YOU HAVE PROVEN THE SENATE TO BE FULL OF IDIOTS AND THAT THE FBI IS CORRUPT…THAT OUR SYSTEM IS NOT WORKING!!!)
So much for Peace and harmony!!
HERE IS YET ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF JANCITA EAGLE DEER this pisses me off more than Anna Mae’s story…Anna Mae was older and stronger with more of a sense of who she was…Janklow probably robbed Jancita of that right.
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