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Sturgis, South Dakota... |
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In Deadwood I walked to the block where the old Saloon #10 stood... both the original site and the current establishment... where Wild Bill Hickock was shot dead on August 2, 1876 in cold blood. But first I stepped in to the Oyster Bay Hotel for a cup of coffee and there I had pleasant conversation with Miss Janice, who told me of the years that she had lived in Virginia City, Nevada before settling in Deadwood... |
By the Deadwood moon
Wild Bill's ghost haunts #10 saloon
Where a coward came to get him
Bill held a "dead man's hand"
Of aces and eights
With his back to the door, he tempted fate
Poor Bill never knew what hit him
Gamblin' his life away
Into the rhymes of the renegades
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From Mount Rushmore and the edge of the Black Hills, looking eastward out over the prairie that I would soon be crossing... |
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Parting shots of Mount Rushmore... |
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Between Rushmore and Rapid City I came upon the likeness of Ronald Reagan... |
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Descending into Rapid City, South Dakota... |
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I passed by a large human skeleton out walking dinosaur skeleton... |
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The seemingly endless prairie of the Northern Great Plains... |
