Wyoming is sure horse country, and horseperson (cowperson?) country!

This is a little town we stopped in for gas, but all are very much the same.  Wyoming has a few larger cities, but is mostly a state of small towns.  These two friendly guys (grandpa and grandson) were just out for a ride on the town main street, and stopped to admire the bikes.  Grandpa doesn't ride motorcycles anymore 'cause he kept falling off.  I told him that's the way it was with me and horses.

The trip from Jackson Hole over to Casper WY was smooth sailing once we got the Indian started in the a.m.  It was about 6500 feet and about 41 degrees this morning, and the Indian didn't like either of those facts.  But Greg got his morning aerobic workout (for those who aren't aware of the fact, a 1947 Indian has to be kick started every time...no electric ignition!)   Jackson was also totally fogged in, and we never got to see the Gran Tetons even as we rode out.

The woman behind the desk at our Best Western tonight is a fourth generation Wyomingite and used to drive a cab in Deadwood.  Gotta be some great stories there, but the front desk is too busy for me to take up her time.  I just wish i could remember all my western history, but I guess I'l get a chance to brush up on it in Deadwood.  Most people don't associate the Dakotas with the great Indian conflicts of the 19th century, but the stretch along the northern Wyoming/southern Montana borders and into South Dakota and Nebraska was the heart of much of the Indian conflict, the principal tribes being the Sioux family of tribes.  Little Bighorn, where Custer bought the farm, is a bit west of Deadwood, out in southern Montana, but Wounded Knee is right here in South Dakota, just an arrow shot from the Nebraska border.  Much of the history of the European settlers moving into Indian lands took place right around this area. I am really looking forward to riding through these grassland prairies only a few generations removed from the drama that unfolded on them as part of the settlement of the American West.