Category: Travel
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Pothole Prairie
There is a stretch of the Northern prairie that was originally covered with small ponds, wetlands & lakes left over from the retreating Wisconsin Glacier – I.E. potholes. I guess that makes this a ‘pothole prairie‘. The glacial remnants cover southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and parts of Manitoba, Montana, North & South Dakota, Minnesota and Iowa.…
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Northeast Montana
Missouri Breaks I wanted to tour the core of the Missouri Breaks National Monument. From what we can figure, one would need to either canoe/raft the Missouri downstream from somewhere around Fort Benton, or have a fairly capable off-road vehicle. The ranger at the visitor center suggested that the road through Judith Landing was passable…
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Missouri Breaks, Elk Rut
I wanted to visit the non-touristy part of Montana – the vast prarie in the east-central part of the state. Like many, we’ve assumed that the only interesting part is the mountainous west, and hence have driven across the (boring) east and center as fast as possible. Not this trip. I wanted to criss-cross the…
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Plastic Water
We’re slowly working our way west again, this time towards Montana. The upper Missouri River basin is the target. We’ve been staying in various North Dakota State Parks for the last week, roughly tracking the Missouri River. ND has nice parks. We visited the Knife River Indian Village National Historic Site, which preserves the remnants…
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We’re not in Kansas anymore
Or Nebraska, or Iowa… After being thoroughly depressed by the story of the Sand Creek Massacre, we headed east-northeast through Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. Along the way we hit a few wildlife refuges – Kerwin National Wildlife Refuge in Kansas, DeSoto NWR in Iowa, and the Touch the Sky Prairie unit of the Northern Tallgrass…
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Sand Creek, 1864
Today’s quotes: “Damn any man who sympathizes with Indians! … I have come to kill Indians, and believe it is right and honorable to use any means under God’s heaven to kill Indians. … Kill and scalp all, big and little; nits make lice. Col. John Chivington, Civil War hero, Methodist pastor. And: “Men, I…
Michael Janke 