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JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT YOU COULD NOT BEAT THE SCENERY PHOTOGRAPHS THAT YOU HAD ALREADY TAKEN- THERE IT COMES RIGHT AT YOU AND TAKES YOUR BREATH AWAY.THIS IS RED CANYON-EAST OF LANDER (52)(53))ON THE ROUTE SOUTH -TRY AND CLICK ON THE SNAP AND MAKE IT BIGGER AND YOU GET SOME IDEA WHAT WE FOUND OURSELVES LOOKING AT THROUGH THE BACK WINDOW...PREVIOUS TO THIS WE STARTED THE TRAIL IN EARNEST,CALLING AT THE SITING OF THE COWBOY BAR IN MEETEESTE WHERE BUTCH CASSIDY WAS ARRESTED FOR HORSE THEFT(INCL. IN PHOTO SECTION-(54)THEN IT WAS THERMOPOLIS WHICH HOUSES A GREAT WESTERN MUSEUM,THE HIGHLIGHT BEEN THE RE-SITING OF THE ORIGINAL BAR FROM THE 'HOLE IN THE WALL BAR' WHICH GOT IT'S NAME FROM BEING THE POPULAR DRINKING HOUSE FOR WHICH THE WILD BUNCH GANG FREQUENTED(PHOTO SECTION-(55)SOUTH OF THE TOWN WE AGAIN HIT SOME WONDERFUL SCENERY(WIND RIVER CANYON-PHOTO SECTION-(56)(57))THEN CAME LANDER WHICH HAS NOW GROWN INTO A MID SIZE TOWN AND SADLY LOST A LOT OF ITS OLD WORLD CHARM...BUT HOLD ON, BECAUSE NEXT CAME TWO 'OFF THE TRACK' PLACES AS FEATURED IN THE ROBERT REDFORD 'OUTLAW TRAIL' BOOK-BEING 'ATLANTIC CITY' AND 'SOUTH PASS CITY'-WE HAD A DRINK IN THE 'MERCANTILE BAR' IN ATLANTIC CITY(58) AND SAT WHERE MR.REDFORD HAD SAT IN EARLIER TIMES,THEN ON WE WENT, ON WHAT WILL MOST CERTAINLY BE ,THE ROUGHEST TRACK WE WILL HAVE TO NEGOTIATE,TO GET TO SOUTH PASS CITY-BOB SAID AND I QUOTE-'YOU WOULD NEVER GET ME BRINGING MY CAR DOWN A ROAD LIKE THIS...'CHECK OUT THE WELCOME SIGN AS YOU ENTER SOUTH PASSS CITY(PHOTO SECTION-(59)-IT REALLY WAS THAT SMALL, BUT IN IT'S HEYDAY AS A GOLD MINING TOWN, OVER 8,000 PEOPLE LIVED THERE...NEXT UP WAS ROCK SPRINGS THAT JUST SEEMED A BIT LIFELESS,SO WE CARRIED ON,ONE FULL TANK ALREADY EXHAUSTED (EVEN FOR THE SILVER DREAM MACHINE)AND EVENTUALLY ROLLED INTO BAGGS ,WYOMING,(60) WHERE WE HITCHED UP CAMP FOR THE NIGHT AT THE 'COWBOY INN'-BAGGS WAS A FAVOURITE PLACE FOR BUTCH AND WE GOT SOME INVALUABLE INFORMATION FROM SCOTT ,THE OWNER WHO INFORMED US ,THAT A NUMBER OF RANCHERS IN THE BAGGS AREA ,ALL TELL STORIES OF BUTCH RETURNING TO THE AREA AND NOT BEEN KILLED AS LEGEND WOULD HAVE IT, IN THE BOLIVIAN SHOOT OUT....SO.ON WE GO AND TOMORROW WE HOPE TO HIT LARAMIE,WELL THATS ANOTHER DAY.......
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