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South Pass Wyoming

Independence Rock (Wyoming) and Musings on Letters and Humanity

Published September 9, 2019

A lady in too-tight pajamas is smearing peanut butter on white bread. Off in the distance, my mules are grazing. Travel has gotten easier in the past 200 years. The mules and I have arrived at Independence Rock, Wyoming.

Mule Cracker at Independence Rock Wyoming after traveling 1650 miles on Long Rider Bernie Harberts Two Mules to Triumph journey
Cracker ponders the 1,650 miles he’s traveled to reach the Rock. This is considerably farther than many migrants’ mules that would have started their journey in the mid-West. Not that life was easier then. Dysentery killed many travelers heading this route.… Continue reading →
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General Store Too Proud to Ride a Cow

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