Wednesday June 27th: Today we drove the few miles from the Rafter J Bar Ranch campground to Mount Rushmore. This is very impressive and well worth the stop. The scene here was taken looking down the Gallery of Flags with the faces in the background. They have a flag for each state plus each U.S. Territory, fifty six in all. The ampitheater is just beyond the flags and the start of a walking path up under the heads and back to the ampitheater again. Three men were working on top of Roosevelt the day that we were there. You would not have caught me hanging off of his hairline.
Thursday we drove down to the Custer State park and around it. Many more Bison here than we saw at Yellowstone and an altogether nice park. They had a forest fire in the park early in the week and we drove through the burned areas on part of the circuit. There was still a lot of smoldering and smoke and we passed quite a few firemen and equipment keeping an eye on things. We stopped for a picnic lunch and relaxed for while on the way out of the park.
Friday we drove over to Keystone, SD and walked through the old town section, the Holy Terror mine, and the old stores.
Saturday was a trip up to Deadwood, SD, where Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane died. They had written about their reconstructed old town but it was just a major street with old buildings housing casinos. I guess that they were trying to hold on to their gambling reputation, but that didn't interest us much. The drive through the Black Hills was very pretty however.
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