This was a great round-trip which I have been on with friends several times. First we traveled up Logan Canyon to the southeast side of Bear Lake and into Wyoming. The first stop is Fossil Butte. The largest fossil site in the world. You can actually go on a dig and keep what you find for a price. We just went to the museum and national site. VERY INTERESTING.
Next stop was in Kemmer, Wyoming. This is where the founder of the JC Penny store was raised and where the first JC Penny store is located.
This is his lovely home in its original state.
This is inside the first JC Penny store. The JC Penny store was in Logan, Utah on main street. My mother worked in that store for many years. This photo above is the "tube". It was where the cashier would put the money in the tube and it was sent to the office on the second floor by way of a vacuum suckened tube. The money is taken out and then the case sent back to the cashier. This is a earlier version of the bank drive-up tube.
I can remember this tube very well in the Logan store. Sounds prehistoric now.
Inside the first JC Penny store with Christina and LuDean talking to the Cashier.
Old items which were sold back then and a bust of Mr. Penny.
This is the way the first store looked way back then.
And now.....................
A monument of remembrance in the Kemmer park across the street.
On the way to Lander we stopped at South Pass and old miner's town.
It is well preserved with alot of originals!!!!
Christina and Ludean coming out of an old building at South Pass, Wyoming.
Yeppeee for strong women and women's rights!!!!
Old printing press at South Pass.
Entering Lander is a real treat. It is so majestic looking down at this valley from the highway.
Breath Taking!!!!!!Next Day......it's on to Martin's Cove on a side trip.
This is a Prairie Skooner. Named because the fields and prairie looked like ocean waves and the wagon was the ship going across.
Inside the Martin Cove museum. Wonderful, insightful, inspiring stories and displays.
We ate our lunch while we watched a stake of young people coming back from the trek up to the cove.
You need to be young and healthy to do the trek.
The veil bridge where the handcart people of today crossed and it is called veil bridge because people say they can hear and feel the Martin people so long ago.Now, it's back to Lander and a few miles beyond is the Washiki Indian reservation. The Indian reservation is the most fascinating site. They bury their dead slightly above ground and then surround them with bed frames and place money, jewelry, food, and clothing on top for the "Happy Hunting Ground."
This is where Sacajawea is buried and as you can see the Indians place rocks, flowers, jewlery, and money at the base of her statue.
Someone even placed a necklace around her neck.
The Sacajawea statue stands almost 8 feet tall and is very beautiful to view. She holds in her hand an abalone shell signifing that she reached the west coast with Lewis and Clark Expedition.
This is her burial place.
Other burial stones.................
Can you see how the mounds of clay are slightly above ground.....On to Dubois........where we stayed over night...............
This is the famous plateau where Chief Washiki challenged the Chief of the Crow nation for hunting rights in the region. On top of this butte they fought each other on their horses and with spears. Each tribe looked up to see who would win but there was too much dust...then Chief Washiki could be seen riding down from the butte with the heart of the Crow Indian chief on his lance.The next morning in Debois, Wyoming we head west into beautiful grand country...with the Grand Tetons eventually coming into view until we turned into Jackson hole.
The Grand Tetons looking through the raining car window.
Dahaa...roll down the window...get better photos.
Last animal spotted before home....a moose in the wet meadow.
