Gallery – Eastern Colorado
The GPTA is pleased to announce our June Photo Gallery which features the delights of eastern Colorado. It goes without saying that the common perception of Colorado involves snow capped mountains, but lying to the east of the Front Range is a full 1/3 of the state that quietly exists in the literal and perceptual […]
The Mako Sica Trail
In an earlier post – The Badlands – Good Lands for Traveling – I had mentioned that the Lakota had originally named the area we now call the Badlands “mako sica,” or “land bad.” I recently discovered, courtesy of some people I met while traveling in the Badlands, that there is a new trail being proposed […]
Roadside Attractions III
Here are a few more shots from the most recent GPT scouting mission. They include places in Oglala National Grassland in Nebraska, Buffalo Gap National Grassland in South Dakota as well as a few spots in the Black Hills. Enjoy! […]
Roadside Attractions Part II
This is the next installment of the scouting mission for the GPT. In the near future, I will provide much more detailed information on what I have found, but for now, it must be said that if you see a few extra holes in the moon tonight, it’s because I shot it . . . […]
Roadside Attractions
Enough of books and movies for now. Let’s get down to some real Great Plains Trail action! There’s lots more to come, but here are some photos from a recent outing to eastern Colorado and western Nebraska. Enjoy! […]
Not That Flat
A recently published book about the Great Plains caught my attention a few weeks back. It’s called Not That Flat and it’s by Anthony J. Dzik who is a Professor of Geography at Shawnee State University in southern Ohio. The book deals with a variety of topographical features within the Great Plains in order to […]
Powwow Highway
Back to films of the Great Plains . . . One of my favorite films of the last (can it possibly be that long?) 25 years or so is Powwow Highway from 1989. It’s the story of Buddy and Philbert who take a road trip from Montana to New Mexico in order to bail out […]
It is Solved by Walking
Back to Books . . . Here’s a recent publication from Oregon State University Press called Walking Distance – Extraordinary Hikes for Ordinary People by Robert and Martha Manning. The Book is an introduction to (and not a thorough guide for) various long distance walking trails throughout the world. Some of them are famous such as […]
Days of Heaven and “The Magic Hour”
Ok . . . back to talking about films depicting the Great Plains in one way or another. However, it’s becoming clear that other things will continue to pop up, and it will difficult to maintain a steady stream of posts related to films. That’s ok, I’ll just sprinkle them in when I can like […]
Photo of the Week – April 25, 2013
This is very interesting information along with some nice late spring photos from the Niobrara River.
April Gallery – Western Nebraska
Like the Dakotas, Nebraska goes through some dramatic changes as you go from east to west. The eastern portion of the state is akin to most of the Midwest in that it has generally rolling farmlands with a healthy dose of wooded areas in the mix. The western half of the state is dry with […]
The Bones of the Past
I’ll get back to the topic of movies very soon, but I wanted to interject on a slightly different topic that I encountered just this week. Not only does this topic have nothing to do with movies, the basis for this topic occured at least 15 or 20 thousand years before the first movie was […]
