Ok, two more. Sorry, Ayoub. This is just to interesting a story to pass up.
About a mile down the road from this is an old pioneer school house, still standing, with empty windows staring like sightless eyes at the horse pasture/wheat field that has sprung up around it. Right across the road from my old house, and about 20 yards off to the left of this house, is the old pioneer cemetary.
Sometimes I didn't like getting home late at night.
Dont pay attention to the apologies, Ayoub! We are SO hijacking your journal to engage in our little haunted house on the prairie conversation. But just in case - here's a pic of my dog. She is now to my right in front of the fireplace.
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I'm living in the sand hills of Nebraska - just off of I80 - formerly the Oregon Trail. I've been reading this series of books about pioneers crossing the west and it's a little disturbing to keep reading about hundreds of people dying along the Platte River. Hello - couple of miles away! My town was nicknamed the Gomorrah of the West. There is an OLD cemetery here where they buried the gunned-down cowboys, so they called it "Boot Hill." Died with their boots on, see? But what if the ghosts get bored and want to take a ghost vacation at the Lake? Any day now I fully expect to look up and see Ghost Riders in the sky bearing down on me.
I live in Ogallala. It actually was a hub for several trails: The Oregon Trail, the Mormon Trail, The Santa Fe trail and the route taken by the Pony Express. I have some pics of Boot Hill. If I wasn't so tired I would go find them and post them. (Then maybe I might have to start apologizing!)
One of these weekends I'm gonna drive the 2 hours to Scotts Bluff and Chimney Rock.
It would be worth it. I haven't been to any of those places yet, having mostly managed to travel across the northern states. As in, right below Canada's border.
I just drove from Nebraska - with pit-stops in Salt Lake City - to San Francisco to spend the holidays with my brother. It amazed me to drive on I80 which follows along the old trails, putting places to the names I had read about. Biggest impact: Donner Pass. My hat's off to ANYONE brave enough to have made that journey through the mountains!
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Date: 2007-01-26 09:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-01-26 10:14 am (UTC)(Sorry, Ayoub, just this one more)
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Date: 2007-01-26 10:24 am (UTC)And yeah, Amityville Horror eye/windows lookin atcha there!
*shudders*
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Date: 2007-01-26 10:37 am (UTC)Though I haven't posted since I moved to the city.
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Date: 2007-01-26 10:17 am (UTC)About a mile down the road from this is an old pioneer school house, still standing, with empty windows staring like sightless eyes at the horse pasture/wheat field that has sprung up around it.
Right across the road from my old house, and about 20 yards off to the left of this house, is the old pioneer cemetary.
Sometimes I didn't like getting home late at night.
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Date: 2007-01-26 10:36 am (UTC)http://pics.livejournal.com/manage/pic?id=1
I'm living in the sand hills of Nebraska - just off of I80 - formerly the Oregon Trail. I've been reading this series of books about pioneers crossing the west and it's a little disturbing to keep reading about hundreds of people dying along the Platte River. Hello - couple of miles away! My town was nicknamed the Gomorrah of the West. There is an OLD cemetery here where they buried the gunned-down cowboys, so they called it "Boot Hill." Died with their boots on, see? But what if the ghosts get bored and want to take a ghost vacation at the Lake? Any day now I fully expect to look up and see Ghost Riders in the sky bearing down on me.
Where do you live?
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Date: 2007-01-26 10:38 am (UTC)Oh yeah, I know about Boot Hill. I studied the Oregon Trail and the history of the West some time ago.
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Date: 2007-01-26 10:44 am (UTC)One of these weekends I'm gonna drive the 2 hours to Scotts Bluff and Chimney Rock.
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Date: 2007-01-26 10:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-01-26 11:05 am (UTC)