Photo of the Day – Harvey McPherson and the Creston Dinosaur

While traveling in my wagon from Canada to Mexico with my Mule Polly, I came across this giant dinosaur in a pasture. I set up camp next to the dinosaur, and not long after, I met a local rancher, Harvey McPherson (pictured), who told me about the dinosaur. I asked him who made the dinosaur, and he said, "There used to be a small train depot here in this community. Some of the guys that worked here knew that someday the town would disappear and the town of Creston wouldn't even be remembered. So they went over to the creek and found a cottonwood log as close to the shape of a dinosaur as they could. They drug it over by the old town and started making a dinosaur with chicken wire and plaster of Paris and that, according to what I've heard, is how it came to be. We got a little fence around it, and it's not the best, but it keeps the cattle out of it. That's kind of the way Creston is being remembered."