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We went to The National Historic Trails in Casper. We "rode" in a covered wagon while it crossed the North Platte River. The pioneers followed this river for a long ways.
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The Trails Museum covers four trails that came through Casper. One of the trails was the Oregon Trail.
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They have a sample of the goods that families carried with them. The stove probably got left on the side of the trail because it weighed too much.
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The Mormon trail
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A lot of the Mormons used hand carts like this one.
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The California Trail
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This is the route it took.
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And last but not least, The Pony Express.
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They rode in relay from St. Louis to Sacramento in ten days.
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The express lasted only eighteen months because the train finally went cross country.
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This is a road sign from present day. People like to follow the trails like people following the old Route 66.
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You can see all of Casper from up there.
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Then we drove around the center of Cheyenne. This is the first governor's mansion. Nobody lives here anymore; it's a museum now.
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The Capitol
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All around town are large cowboy boots all painted up differently.
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like this one
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It's in front of the depot that has turned into a museum as well.
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This horse is sculpted from tools and gears etc. to do with trains.
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This is the big deal in western wear in this part of the country. It's very expensive!
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Your dad tried on a $150. cowboy hat. Cute
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This a steam engine that ran from Cheyenne to Ogden, Utah until the 50's.
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Today we are in Lyman, Wy. We drove up to Kemmerer to Fossil Butte. It's supposed to be the site of the largest fish fossil area in the world.
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They've found bird fossils as well.
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This one is about the size of a chicken.
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That white layer at the top is the fossil butte.
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We walked up this trail. And I mean up.
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It looks rather like a desert from here.
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It has lots of flowers like this Indian Paint Brush.
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From about two thirds up you can see forever.
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That little bitty white patch in the center of the photo is where we have to get to talk to an intern who is digging for fossils.
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These are a couple that have been found at this site.
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Here's our intern. She just graduated for U of Mich.
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There is suppose to be a moose and her calf in the thicket of Aspens. But all we saw was her scat. Although we saw a kestrel and a flicker.
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We climbed waaay up there. We're almost back down to the car. It was about two miles round trip.
We've had a good time so far. In between Cheyenne and Lyman we stopped over in Rawlins. There was nothing there we wanted to see or do, so we had a rest day. It was very relaxing. We were counting the days this morning and discovered we'd be home in three weeks from today. Boy time has gone by fast.
Well I guess that's all for tonight. More later.
Love Mom and Dad
3 comments:
Nice photos, have you been using your Nike+ to track your hikes too?
Who knew they had such cool art hanging around Cheyenne?
Nick woul love the fossils.
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