Photograph Gallery: North Central USA
by Douglas Boynton Quine

356 images from a trip in search of the 50th state

Trip Overview

Flying West

Kansas

1: "Wizard of Oz" tee shirts at Kansas City airport, Missouri
2: Lewis and Clark Trail marker
3 and 4: Levenworth Prison

1: Levenworth house
2 and 3: Atchison, Kansas railroad crossing
4: Atchison, Kansas grain elevator, railroad cars, and map

1: Atchison, Kansas memorial
2 and 3: Amelia Earhart birthplace, Atchison, Kansas
4: bridge, Atchison, Kansas

rural northern Kansas

Nebraska

1: Nebraska survey reference point
2 and 3: Corn fields and hybrid seed signs

Iowa

1 to 4: Loess Hills and farms

1 to 4: early transportation

1 to 5: Blue Bunny, Ice Cream Capital of the World, Le Mars

South Dakota

1 to 5: Public art, Sioux Falls

1 to 4: Sioux Falls

1 to 3: crossing South Dakota

1 to 2: Corn Palace, Mitchell
3: Mitchell
4: Al's Oasis, Chamberlain, South Dakota

1 to 3: South Dakota continues

1: Minuteman Missle National Park
2: Sod house

1 to 16: Badlands National Park

1 to 5: Badlands Panorama

1 to 6: Yellow Mounds, Badlands National Park

1 to 3: Badlands mud

1: buffalo chip
2: don't touch

1 to 2: Praire dogs

1 to 3: pronghorn deer

1 to 4: mule deer

1 to 4: Buffalo (Bison) in the Badlands

Badlands sunset

1: Wall
2: shop, Wall Drug Store
3: restaurant, Wall Drug Store
4: free ice water stand, Wall Drug Store
5: Jackelope, Wall Drug Store
6: T Rex speaks, Wall Drug Store

Many: Mount Rushmore with Presidents Washington, Jefferson, T. Roosevelt, Lincoln
... and the artist

1 to 5: Crazy Horse Memorial

1 to 4: Crazy Horse Memorial center

1 to 8: Spearfish Canyon and Spearfish

1 to 3: Maryclaire at Matthews Opera House, Spearfish

1: Spearfish
2 to 3: Matthews block, Spearfish

1 to 3: Frawley Ranch established 1892, near Deadwood

1 to 5: historic Deadwood
6: facades along highway bypass
7: one armed bandits (Holiday Inn) funding historic revitalization
8: tourist Jackelope

1: celebrity guitars (Clapton, Eagles, Richards, McCartney, Stewart), Celebrity Hotel, Deadwood
2: celebrity instruments (Nicks, Jagger, Brooks, Young), Celebrity Hotel, Deadwood
3: Herbie the Love Bug, Celebrity Hotel, Deadwood
4: Dennis Hopper motorcycle, Celebrity Hotel, Deadwood
5: MASH jeep, Celebrity Hotel, Deadwood
6: Forrest Gump clothing, Celebrity Hotel, Deadwood
7: James Bond 007 car from Goldfinger, Celebrity Hotel, Deadwood
8: Beatles drums, Celebrity Hotel, Deadwood

Wyoming

1 to 7 and 9: Wyoming
8: little Alva
9: Oregon trail
10: the late lamented

1 to 4: Devil's Tower

1 to 2: industry
3: salt flat
4: lava field

Wyoming

1 and 2: Wyoming near and far

1 to 3: Shriners' parade, Sheriden

Montana

1 to 4: Montana

Little Bighorn Battlefield (Custer's last stand)
1: protagonists (Sitting Bull and George Custer) at the starting place of the battle
2: historical marker mirroring reality
3 to 4: fortifications

1 to 7: the human cost

Little Bighorn Battlefield, Memorial, and National Cemetery

driving south in Montana up into the snowy altitude of Yellowstone National Park

Yellowstone National Park entrance in Montana

Wyoming (again)

1 to 8: Mammoth Hot Springs lower terraces in first blizzard of the year, Yellowstone National Park

1 to 3: Mammoth Hot Springs upper terraces in first blizzard of the year, Yellowstone National Park

1 to 6: first blizzard of the year at Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park

Montana (again)

1 to 4: driving around the blizzard at Mammoth Hot Springs

Wyoming (again)

1 to 5: Yellowstone National Park

fields of geysers

1 to 2: Old Faithful geyser gets ready
3 to 7: Old Faithful geyser erupts

1 to 2: falls
3 to 4: continental divide

1 to 9: 1988 fire damage in Yellowstone National Park

1 to 2: Yellowstone fauna

1 to 3: wildlife on a ranch north of Jackson Hole

The Tetons and Grand Teton

rural free delivery

Jackson Hole

1 to 3: Freedom, southwest Wyoming
4: the ubiquitious irrigation wheel
5 to 6: log cabin built by Mrs. Baker and her 12 year old daughter

Idaho - our 50th state

reaching 50 in Idaho

1 to 10: Pioneer Historic Byway in southeastern Idaho
11: beaver dams

1 to 2: lava field
3 to 4: log cabin and farm building, Henry, Idaho

1: Soda Springs industry
2: Soda Springs Oregon Trail sign
3: southern Idaho

1 to 2: Soda Springs (contained) geyser
3: Soda Springs (contained) geyser (postcard)

1: southern Idaho
2: mailing address, southern Idaho

1 to 3: Franklin, the oldest Anglo-Saxon town in Idaho (founded by Mormans)

Utah

1: Logan Morman temple
2: enroute to Salt Lake City
3: Salt Lake City
4: Governor's mansion, Salt Lake City

1-2: Salt Lake City Morman temple
3: Utah State Capital, Salt Lake City
4: marmalade district, Salt Lake City

Connecticut

1: Bradley field
2: Home

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