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stlgnn writes "Trip in Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota

I make a premise to the story of a trip from me done with my friend Roberto (companion of other analogous adventures). This trip On The Road, for the American roads, I have planned him in operation of the rievocazione of the Battle of the LITTLE BIG HORN between the General Custer and the Indians of America with to head Taurus Seduto and CRAZY HORSE. The battle has been fought June 25 th 1876. Every year, near Hardin in Montana, in the days 23/24/25 June a great party develops him with the same rievocazione. Taking I sprout from this event I have organized the viaggio(fai from you) visiting the places in which the Indian and American history has given a turn to the culture and life of the native same. The trip starts with the arrival and Billing in the state of Montana. A state a smaller po of Italy and with 800.000 inhabitants. We rent an auto to the airport directing us to west on the I90W: we reach Laurel after few miles. We leave the highway and we cross the US 212 S. Nostra first destination it is the Yellowstone PARK. We arrive after a few times of viaggio,a Red Lodge, here they begin the mountains (they seem our Alps), we continue, we want to arrive next to the park before evening. After having gone beyond 2 footsteps, we reach Cooke City a paesino of around 100 inhabitants. We systematize there for the night in a motel in the middle of the pines. Very characteristic this motel, every room is not anything else other than a small independent chalet. The morning we enter to the Park of Yellowstone. We are in the state of the Wyoming. This is the first park founded in USA in 1872 and the least height on the level of the sea it is of around 2000 meters. Crossing the roads inside the park they meet him (also in the road center) bisons, cervi,alci and in distance we have also seen an orso.Da visit they are the Minervas Terrace and the warm sources to Mammouth Hot Spring. Spectacular I am iGeyser that is found in the whole park. The most spectacular geyser is found to sud/est of the park it is the Old Faithful, which ago its eruption of gas every 55 minutes for a duration of 8 minutes. There am numerous and spectacular falls as the Lower Falls and he/she anchors the Tower Roosvelt Canyon. To visit well this park is owed to devote at least 2 days. We go out of Yellowstone from the east entrance taking the US14E and 16E (what the same road is) and after having crossed 150 kms we reach Cody. Certainly the town more Western that I have ever met in my trips in America.Girando for the Main Street can be noticed that all the men of the country walk with hat, jeans, shirt and stivaloni as we see in the film.Questas has been the city of birth and residence of Buffalo Bill Cody the famous hunter of bisons and scout. To visit the museum to him devoted and the hotel Irma(diventato also him museum) that Buffalo Bill had given to sister. Not to lose the "Trail Town" the old country of Cody with houses of the epoch and the cemetery where it is buried Jeremy Johnson a famous hunter, (you remember the film "red Crow no you will have my scalp" with Robert Redford?) In this country we have assisted to a true Rodeo. Very beautiful, characteristic and above all Americano.Come completes thing, not to lose in a shop of the Main Street, there is a museum with hundreds of new and ancient saddles belonged to famous characters of the epic western.Lasciamo with nostalgia Cody (I will return there), we take back the walk in direction Powell and Lowell, the road climbs notably (we are crossing the Big Horn Mountain) we reach 3000 meters, in some lines there is still the snow and on top of this mountain, on a pianoro she is found "Medicines WHELLS "it rotates her some medicine it is a place of cult and prayer of the Indians. Visiting him to her breathes a taste of sacredness. It is a wheel always built with big white stones with a diameter of 28 meters and 14 rays of stones the everything is fenced by a metallic net. In this net you/they can be noticed suspended innumerable "votes" of thanks turns to their God. We continue and we reach Sheridan in evening. One of the most greater cities of the state of the Wyoming. The following morning we take the I90E passing and visiting Buffalo and Gilette 'small cities but with strong imprint western. we Go out dallaI90E to Moorcroft and we cross toward south the US16. We enter so in the state of the South Dakota. We enter the forest of the BLACK HILLS. Territory of the Sioux Nations. After 30 miles we visit the Jewel Cave. They are of the underground caves that reach 100 meters deep. Along this road, some shops of antiquity can be met which I recommend to visit, in how much very interesting. We reach Custer. In this country in 1874 the General Custer came to investigate on the Indians bringing 1200 soldiers on this territorio.Il purpose it was to chase the Indians from this place. We leave Custer diverting on the US385N.Lungo this run we find a wood bunker of big dimensions. We enter and with great surprise we discover that it is not anything else other than a commercial complex with shops and ristoranti.Dopo some hundred meters he enters a park where he is carving on the mountain the statue of the famous Indian head Crazy Horse (Crazy Horse) to horse. To the Visitor Center there is a great chalk statue that represents as it will be the statue of Crazy Horse ended. How souvenir can be taken some fragments of the same rock. You foresees that the work will now be finished among 50/60 anni.Pers the viso(alto 87ft)e part of the arm can be admired (lungo237ft), the rest of the monument on the rock is drawn for becoming account of as it will be in futuro.Attraversiamo the forest and we reach Hills City. This country has been very important in the century scorso,in how much the railroad arrived and therefore center of clearing of the run to the gold. A curious thing is that as soon as he arrives in country, it doesn't pass unnoticed the outline of an uomo(un manikin) hung on the balcony of a house, with so much of name and date of the esecuzione.Da here a 1880 tourist train departs (Black Hills Central Railroad)che reaches nearby an old mining country. During the period that has gone here since May to September it develops him along the main street, 2 times the week a show of assault in the bank with relative shoot-out. For a few days we will make base in this country in how much to the center of all the places is to visit, and they are numerous. The following morning starts there on the US16 to reach the Rushmore Mountains. The graven mountains in the rock where the heads of four presidents have imagined from States Uniti.Sulla road we meet a paesino named Keystone. Also it ancient mining center and turistico.si can now visit the museum devoted inventor and builder of the sculptures that is go pursued to see to Gutron Borgulum. We continue and after few miles eccoci to appear from behind a curve, the Rushmore Mountains. We enter the structure built around this imposing sculpture and we admire the faces of the presidents Washington, Jefferson, Roosvetl and Lincoln. You think that this monument has been built among 1927 and 1941. If he/she is thought about the half that there were even more to that epoch for the important costruzione,rende this work. Impressive it is the perfection of the construction of many particolari.Dopos a few times of contemplation, we leave these marvelous statues, we cross laUS16A and we enter the park "Custer Be Park" In this park in the middle of the forest the bisons can be admired, the alci,les royal eagles, the mice of the grassland, the bucks and foxes not to speak of innumerable squirrels. We return Satisfied to Hill City. The following morning, always on the US385N we reach Deadwood. Ancient mining city and country of the gambling. Arriving in the city seems that the time is stopped to 1800, with the on the buildings and all of this that it surrounds . Here it is found a museum that he/she remembers the Fastis of the city. One aimed of it can be done to the cemetery of the country where there are if graves with the relative monuments of Calamity Jane and the famous sheriff Wild Bill Hickock murdered in a cafe of the Main Street. We continue on the US85N and we reach Spearfish, where pernottiamo. Again in the street the day later, today destination the Devils Tower. We introduce there on the I14W and we again enter the Wyoming. We pass Sundance (country of Sundance Kid the bandit) and to the following exit we take the US 14W and the US24N.Dopo thirty miles we reach the Devils Tower. A tower tall 300 meters of volcanic nature. Million of years there was ago an underground eruption which made to escape it washes forming this tower. Here the movie was made "Meetings brought closer of the 3° type. It is called by the white man the Tower of the Devil, while for the Indians it is a sacred place and name it is her tower of the bear, recalling an ancient Indian legend. In this place they went to beg iSioux, the Cheyennes and the Kiowas. In the park the mice of the grassland can be seen, they resemble to the squirrels, which you/they live under earth digging numerous communicating galleries. Left this park we return in the South Dakota stopping by Belle Forche. City note in the epic western for the scorribandes with attack to the trains to work of the bandits Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid, reaching Rapid City in evening the capital of the Black Hills and the Indians Sioux Dakota and Lakota. can be visited in this city the museum devoted to this Indian people. Here to alive Rapid City an Indian head of nome"Naca Cik'ala" to the century Sidney Keit which, other people and I in Italy, have adopted to distance to promote the cause of the Native Americans. /they have gone to find him and the emotion has been a lot of forte.Riprendiamo in our trip toward east and all'uscita of Rapid City we visit a great aeronautical museum and after 1 now of trip on the highway I90E, to Wall (exit 110) we go out for visiting the Badlandses. Simo in the reserve of the Sioux Indians Oglala. This natural park is composed for quite a lot miles from motley rocks created by the erosion of the centuries from the wind and from volcanic eruptions in 37 million anni.Si it enters a desert fact of Canyon where whatever type of life is excluded. It seems to be on the moon, nevertheless the colors and reflexes are fascinating that there are. (here the film Heart of Thunder has been turned, to see). we Return back on the I90W and everything of a breath we reach for the night Sturgis. This country is known from a lot of impassioned bikers, in how much this is the capital of the World Annual Assembly of the Harleys Davison. Every year thousand of bikers gather in thousands for a week the this place. This country has been theater in the century passed of numerous battles between the soldiers and the Indians to the feet of the Bear Butte.Sveglia mountain to the dawn the following morning. Today the trip will be long. We have decided to reach Hardin in Montana for evening. We take laI90W up to Spearfish, going out to the exit10,passiamo Belle Fourche and we direct there toward Montana crossing laUS212E. We enter the Indian reserve of the Cheyennes. This is the classical road that he/she is seen in the films. They crosses miles on miles without meeting anybody and not even a house, only sometimes a very old gas pump. But this is the charm of the trips On the Road in America. A small country that calls Blades Dear exclusively lived by Cheyenne pass, here it is possible to visit the grave of an important Indian Head "Blunt Knife", which brought in its earths its people from the deportation from the Oklahoma.Raggiungiamo the intersection with the I90. We have entered the reserve of the Indian Crow. We now go to visit a place that belongs to the young American history. In this place is taken place June 25 th 1876 the battle of the Litle Big Horn., in which was defeated and killed the General Custer and the 7° cavalry to work of the Indian populations headed by Taurus Seduto, Red Cloud and Crazy Horse. We enter the park where, near to an obelisk there are the headstones that testify the place where fallen are the soldiers and the general Custer(vedi the film: The man that whispered to the horses). While we were visiting one of the shops of souvenir and talking to an Indian gentleman, we discover that to few miles of distance he is developing a sacred function to the Indians "the dance of the sun." We ask if it accompanies us and he consents. After having crossed different excavated roads we arrive on the place. We find us before to a tall circular paling where to the inside they dance different Indians. They prohibit us to film the event. A moment of suggestion and emotion. We arrive to Hardin, we find a motel that will be our base for the next three days. We enter the climate of the celebrations of the Rievocazione of the Battle of the Litle Big Horn. The evening we assist, in a farm near the country, to a dance with 1800 customs, the prelude to the festa.La morning wakes up us a musical gang and pursued we assist to a parade for the streets of the country, of all the characters that will interpret the phases of the armed clash. In the afternoon we direct there to few miles from Hardin where the battle will develop him. We have been able to ascertain that has been organized very well, in the least built particolari.Hannos a bunker and a field indiano.Sembra to assist from the truth to a film western, with so much of pursuits and struggles between Indians and soldiers and with il"cloud "of the same battle. A lot of Bello.Un great show that deserves to be seen. The following morning we return toward south and we reach Crow Agency. And here we notice a big street you go of people, incuriositi we ask that party there was. They tell us that the is in progress King-Enactment (rievocazione) of the battle of the organized Litle Big Horn this time from the Indians. This show is a po more spartanos of the most realistic and exciting precedente,ma. It is developed long and inside the river and on the surrounding hills, this makes the truest show. We can film the event, thing that in the precedent it was vietato.Dopo this show we go there to Pryor (US 313S), the heart of the reserve Crow. In this country the house of an Indian Head can be visited, that succeeded to get this earth from the American government with its diplomacy, its name it was "Head Joseph." From here we return to Billing, where it waits us for the airplane that will bring us home. We return home with an experience in more, but aware of to have learned something of main point from this people, decimated by the wars by the illnesses and by the alcohol, but proud of their past and lover of their Earth. A thanks to the Sioux ones, Cheyenne and to the Crow for their hospitality. A regard goes to the Sioux Head "Naka Cik'Ala" Sidney Keit which has left each other and has reached its grasslands above the clouds. PS: if someone wanted further information can write me: stelitano@tiscalinet.it "