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 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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