THE WEST,HOW IT WAS WON AND LOST

POMPEY'S PILLAR WAS NAMED BY CLARK IN HONOUR OF POMPEY-CLARKS NICKNAME FOR THE SON OF SACAGEWA THE SIOUX TRANSLATOR AND HER FRENCH VOYAGEUR HUSBAND MAIN GUIDE OF THEIR EXPEDITION.IT IS A PROMINANT LANDMARK ON THE MISSOURI AND YELLOWSTONE JUNCTION THAT AFFORDED CLARK GREAT VIEWS OF THE SURROUNDS. HIS INTIALS ARE CARVED IN THE SOFT ROCK.

FORT CLARK-INDENTATIONS ARE DOZENS OF INDIAN EARTHMOUND DWELLINGS AT THIS FUR TRADING POST ON THE MISSOURI

WE CAMPED ON THIS SPOT ON THE MISSOURI IN NORTH DAKOTA.

LEWIS AND CLARK INTERPRETIVE CENTRE.

THE RATHER BIZARRE MEETING POINTS OF THE TWO TRAINS AT PROMONTORY POINT IN 1869.

WOOD FIRED JUPITER FROM SACREMENTO

COAL FIRED TRAIN FROM OMAHA.A COMPETITION FOR FIRST TO COMPLETE THEIR SECTION OF TRACK LED TO GREAT FEATS SUCH AS THE CHINESE TEAM LAYING A RECORD 10 MILES OF TRACK IN ONE DAY AND CLAIMING A RICH PRIZE PUT UP BY THE FEDERAL GOVT. THIS AMAZING FEAT WAS ACHIEVED OVER THE SIERRAS AND ROCKIES WITH NO MORE THAN A 2% GRADE. MUCH OF THE LINE IS STILL USED AND IT SNAKES ACROSS AND AROUND THE LANDSCAPE. THIS SECTION WAS ACTUALLY BY-PASSED IN 1902 BY A CAUSEWAY PUT ACROSS GREAT SALT LAKE.

CHARLES RICH ONE OF THE APOSTLES SENT BY BRIGHAM YOUNG TO COLONISE THE BEAR RIVER AREA. RICH LED A GROUP OF 700 FAMILIES. THETY SET UP MANY TOWNS INCLUDING THIS ONE CALLED PARIS.THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE IN UTAH BUT ACTUALLY IN IDAHO,A GREAT EXPONENT OF POLYGAMY HE HAD 6 WIVES(I PRESUME MORE SPIRITUAL MATTERS OCCUPIED HIS TIME ON SUNDAYS!!) AND 50 CHILDREN .I BELIEVE TODAY SOME 25,000 PEOPLE CAN TRACE ANCESTRY BACK TO HIM.

THE SAINTS OF PARIS LABOURED FOR TWENTY YEARS TO QUARRY,CUT AND STOCKPILE STONE FOR THE PARIS TABERNACLE. NOW THE TOWN HAS A POP OF 150. MANY OF THE SMALL FARM HOUSES STILL EXIST-MASS AGRICULTURE NOW TAKES PLACE ON ACCUMULATED HOLDINGS.

TEDDY ROOSEVELT'S CABIN NEAR MEDORA. HE RANCHED THE NORTH DAKOTA BADLAND S DURING ITS RISE AND FALL .HE LOST A LOT OF MONEY AND THOUGHT POLITICS WAS A CLEANER BUSINESS TO GET INTO.

PART OF THE OLD TR RANCH NOW A NATIONAL PARK.

WILD MUSTANGS ON THE NP PROPERTY-THERE IS AN ANNUAL ROUND-UP AND SALE.

REMNANTS OF THE MEATWORKS SET UP BY A FRENCH SCALLYWAG DE MORES AT MEDORA(NAMED AFTER HIS WIFE)hE WAS A SOMETIMES FRIEND OF TEDDY. HE MET HIS DEMISE SOMEWHERE IN AFRICA OPERATING ANOTHER QUICK RICH SCHEME.

CRAZY HORSE THE GREAT SIOUX WARRIOR SLOWLY EMERGING IN STONE.CARVED BY THE SON OF THE MT RUSHMORE SCULPTOR.(hE ACTUALLY FINISHED RUSHMORE WHEN THE OLD MAN DIED.)

SCENE OF THE FRENZIED MASSACRE OF IMPRISONED INDIAN WARRIORS,WOMEN AND CHILDREN AT WOUNDED KNEE.

WOUNDED KNEE MASS GRAVE ABOVE THE MASSACRE SITE.

PART OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD SITE.CUSTER LED HIS SMALL DIVISION OF TROOPS TO THEIR EQUIVALENT OF THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE.

SITE OF CUSTERS LAST STAND. HOPELESSLY OUT NUMBERED AND CUSTER HIMSELF HAD A SENSE OF RECKLESS IMMORTALITY.

ALL THE CAVALRY FALLEN HAVE STONES MARKING WHERE THEY MET THEIR END. ONLY SINCE 1997 WERE THE DEAD INDIAN WARRIORS HONOURED IN THE SAME WAY.

CUSTER'S LAST STAND -HIS IS THE BLACK MARKER.

THE INDIAN MEMORIAL AT LITLE BIGHORN.

THE CAVALRY MEMORIAL AND MASS GRAVE. THE OFFICERS WERE EXHUMED LATER AND BUIRED IN MILITARY CEMETERIES.