We had planned to find parking for a day in Kaycee and drive
the jeep over to see the Outlaw caves and The Hole in the Wall, but weather was
bad in that area, with flash flood warnings, so we just spent the night at the
rest area in Kaycee and headed for Buffalo in the morning. We got into Buffalo
and pulled into a truck stop and took the jeep for a drive. We saw a ton of neat old houses but not much
else.
Our next stop was a gravel parking area I read about on the
internet. The parking is right on the
northern edge of Lake De Smet. It is one of those really great places to
park. It’s free and very dark and quiet
at night.
From here we took the jeep and went over to the Fetterman Massacre Monument. We walked along the ridge were the battle took place.
It has information plaques all along the trail explaining what took place during the battle. It was pretty interesting. We also went to Fort Phil Kearney and to the memorial sight of the Battle at Wagon Box Corral. We were both really surprised to see the name of 1st Lieutenant John Jenness as one of the casualties. We were able to take a picture of the monument which has a picture of him.
I will definitely be doing some genealogy research on him to see where he ties into Jim’s family. Chances are good that he does tie in, as all of the Jenness’ families trace back to a Francis Jenness who came to New Hampshire in the 1600’s.
From here we took the jeep and went over to the Fetterman Massacre Monument. We walked along the ridge were the battle took place.
It has information plaques all along the trail explaining what took place during the battle. It was pretty interesting. We also went to Fort Phil Kearney and to the memorial sight of the Battle at Wagon Box Corral. We were both really surprised to see the name of 1st Lieutenant John Jenness as one of the casualties. We were able to take a picture of the monument which has a picture of him.
I will definitely be doing some genealogy research on him to see where he ties into Jim’s family. Chances are good that he does tie in, as all of the Jenness’ families trace back to a Francis Jenness who came to New Hampshire in the 1600’s.
I mentioned that we are currently parked at the edge of a
lake, it was so hot and muggy yesterday that we ended up going wading in the
lake, and boy did that feel good. Jim
actually did some swimming while I was happy just to walk around waist deep in
the water. We had a heck of a rain storm
go through shortly after we got done playing in the water. The sky turned dark, the wind started blowing
and the temperature dropped like a rock from 89 degrees to 59 degrees. There was thunder and lightning and so much
rain you couldn’t see the far end of the lake. It lasted about an hour and then
the sun came back out. My only regret in
being here is we don’t have fishing licenses or fishing gear. We have seen a lot of people fishing and some
of them have caught some pretty good sized trout. Jim talked to one fisherman that said they
catch a lot of wall eye out of the lake.
There was a storm one day complete with thunder, lightning and a downpour of rain. We were lucky. We heard that just over the hills from us they had gotten golf ball sized hail. I can't imagine what that would have done to the MH.
There was a storm one day complete with thunder, lightning and a downpour of rain. We were lucky. We heard that just over the hills from us they had gotten golf ball sized hail. I can't imagine what that would have done to the MH.
Almost forgot to mention the wildlife. Jim couldn't get a picture of all three but there was a doe and buck sharing the field one day with a pronghorn buck.
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