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Saturday, September 16, 2006

 

The adventure continues...




We were one of the first to arrive at Mt. Rushmore. The early morning fog was thick.

It seemed like we were so close.
We walked the President's Trail around the statues.




This huge Ingersol Rand compressor housed in this building was one of three that powered the jack hammers that carved the statues.





The Avenue of Flags.


The columns with the flags had the names of each of the 50 states.






We had a relaxing breakfast in the cafe before continuing our adventures.





This is what the surrounding area looks like. The huge rock to the left is similar to the rock into which Mt. Rushmore was sculpted.







Then we were off to see the Crazy Horse Memorial.



Crazy Horse is a work in progress. Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear, representing his fellow chiefs, asked sculptor Korczak Ziolkowski to carve Crazy Horse. Korczak's "Paderewski: Study of an Immortal" won first prize at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Korczak started work on the mountain in 1949.
"My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know the red man has great heroes, too," wrote Chief Henry Standing Bear.

The scale model of Crazy Horse. "My lands are where my dead lie buried."

We drove through Lead (pronounced LEED), Deadwood and Sturgis.




Lead was founded during the great gold rush of 1876 and was sustained by one of the richest veins unearthed.


As we left Lead, the temperature dropped twenty degrees and a cold rain started to fall. The temperatures remained about 16 degrees below normal for the rest of the day!


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