TDW 1874 - Top Of Capitol Building Sits Forgotten
Transcript
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well Large Marge it's time to say
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goodbye to Nebraska and hello why
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Oh me welcome everyone Adam I knew we
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were here it's my second channel daily
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vlog channel it's daily
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the terrain is slowly changing parts are
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flat just like we've seen the last few
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states but then others are big chunks of
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rock one thing you'll notice a lot of
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out here are these randomly sporadically
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placed snow fences this one particularly
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is planted on the opposite side of it
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and you'll also see it's not a complete
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wall of wood there are slats in it to
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let the air through because they don't
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want the snow to stockpile they just
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want it to be peppered through the air
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and lay gently here as it approaches the
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thoroughfare these hay bales are placed
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in spots where animals do not normally
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roam now I know sometimes they lay hay
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down when they're trying to plant grass
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seed but as you can see there's there's
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plenty of grass on the side of the road
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so why would these hay bales be on this
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side of the fence pump pump pump pump
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pump coffee in a bottle today well a
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plastic bottle whoa whoa whoa whoa has
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this guy been following me don't try to
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disguise yourself I'd recognize you from
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the other day I do like that hat and
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sweet handkerchief though but stop stop
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stop following me please
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I take myself off the state magnet in
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the shape of a bison before entering
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i-80 this is the first interstate I've
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been on in the last week err stuff it
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looks as if most the wind turbines are
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operational
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there's one or two in there that are
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turned off but the majority of them are
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spinning around there's some sort of
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wild beast trying to escape from
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underneath that tarp that bands carrying
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some sorta wild creature just decaying
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wood ensign state's 1892 when that
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schoolhouse was built but what's next to
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it is even more fascinating this is the
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original top of the 1917 State Capitol
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building in 1999 they removed it and
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left it here it has been given the
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nickname dome on the range and is
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completely surrounded by shards of
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broken glass just a little peek inside
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it's amazing that for over 80 years this
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served Wyoming well John your duty now
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you can just sit here in this view and
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it looks as if the door
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is open hello oh oh my gosh this
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mannequin thing startled the heck out of
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me with a stern warning that people who
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take and break things from here will
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wish they hadn't
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he had no kidding you're holding up
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you're holding a freaking meat cleaver
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movie if you grew up in the spare the
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rod spoil the child generation that you
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know exactly what the Board of Education
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was used for there's some chalk down
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here people have signed the blackboard
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if for some reason you stumble upon this
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amazing place walk inside and sign your
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name next to mine I have heard that when
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indoor plumbing became a thing and
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bathrooms moved indoors that those that
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first experienced it were wondering why
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anyone would want to stink their house
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up true story I've heard that drove down
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the road just to bed a few miles and
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ready to get rained on just ever so
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gently but that's ok because it's not
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going to stop me checking out the
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self-proclaimed smallest town in America
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Buford population 1 obviously there's
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not very much here the rumor is the town
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itself is owned by a very rich man from
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Vietnam who opened this convenience
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store up on the site pretty cool mural
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on the wall and
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they have their own merchandise coffee
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mugs hats t-shirts the employee at the
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register inside he's the only one that
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lives here anywhere here he's the only
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resident got myself another magnets he
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was saying that the owner who lives out
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of the country might be closing the
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store in September it's a good thing I
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got this this might be a collector's
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item and I got some snacks corn nuts
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again and I love these I might be the
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only person wonder if it likes these
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that oh so good up the freeway a bit
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something pretty interesting and unusual
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so unusual in fact they have created
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this little off-ramp so the tourists can
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see it say hello to the tree in the rock
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yes it's actually growing inside as the
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story goes there used to be a railroad
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that went through here and they rerouted
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the tracks when they first discovered
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the tree and as they continue to pass by
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they pull the train over and water it
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and it's been here ever since
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normally you see roots like this on the
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ground where I'm currently standing but
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if you make your way up the side of this
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Boulder the roots go directly inside
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this is pretty weird you might be
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wondering why I got off the pavement and
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now I'm driving down this dirt road
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picking up sand every which way because
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I'm heading towards that a monument in
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the shape of a pyramid this thing is
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massive just to give you a perspective
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look at the gentleman on the far right
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down here talking on a cell phone
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the suckers big each one of those
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boulders weighs 20 tons and that's the
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unfinished product before they move them
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in the position of what you see now
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amazing what can be found basically in
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the middle of nowhere
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incredible
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continue down the freeway a bit and I
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have stopped off at this rest area which
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is home of old Honest Abe Lincoln
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himself in a huge bronze noggin form got
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it all fixed up nice and air got some
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animals behind the glass oh there's a
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bird chirping up there do not even
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attempt to have a staring contest with
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this guy
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because he will win he will not blink
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yet he will not blink to look closely
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I'm right I'm right in there somewhere
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the inscription on this weather warned
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rock is very hard to make out so they
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have replaced it with this newer
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template that says telephone canyon
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first conversation over this line with
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LD r in 1882 between bill nye imagine
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what it was like when they were igniting
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these sticks of dynamite to carve this
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pathway through the mountain probably
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was pretty loud ricocheting off the
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sides of the hills gas station was
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called the gunslinger 66 and they have
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recreated tucked away in the corner the
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ghost town of tumbleweed
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equipped with a stable a bank a saloon
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and a hotel how did pardon me
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now is his name pop or is he someone
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father the store is closed so if you
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need fuel get to do it with a credit
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card
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making my way now under the property of
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the former territorial prison this is
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the type of vehicle you would have been
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locked up dead and escorted directly
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into there they place photos on the
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walls of some of the inmates this guy's
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name was William Herbert he was right
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here inside the cellblock most of the
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items are behind pieces of glass for
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good reason because they are antiques
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but this was the bathing area they kept
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the men and women separates this is
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where the ladies were behind bars and
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down here some of the tools of the trade
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of the infirmary
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the dining hall also had a couple pianos
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and one interesting thing about this
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particular prison no one was allowed to
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talk there was no talking allowed here
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the only exception being if you were out
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doing a job and working if it was a
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safety concern who were allowed to speak
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up this is where the guard stood to get
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a little bit of a bird's eye on the
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prisoners panoramic photo shows what it
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used to look like if you'll notice this
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place located right in front of the
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front door basically it's called the Ice
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House the last prisoner that escaped
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from here was left unforgotten doing his
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job cutting the ice and he escaped
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it had its share of notable prisoners
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most famous being Butch Cassidy himself
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the outside guard tower right there if
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you walk through here this is a backside
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the courtyard behind the prison one item
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that they created here on site were
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brooms
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I never realized that brooms are made
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and in jail I mean obviously not every
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room but there's a few other buildings
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out here as well they really have put a
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lot of work into this place some horse
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stalls wool little remnant there what's
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inside a cow do I do I want to know
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what's inside a cow
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I didn't want and I shouldn't come at
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this old stagecoach I noticed around the
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opposite side is some stairs you can go
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up in this thing so this is what it's
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like to sit in what are these things
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I've always seen them in westerns and TV
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shows and movies nice be a little more
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interesting if it was actually moving
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now I know you're not allowed to talk
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out here
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well I'm talking but you weren't allowed
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to talk are you have your sunglasses
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the real question is that I give up my
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voice to keep my shades Little Mermaid
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status
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and speaking of do you think anyone
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would recognize my RV
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she was sporting these it's pretty good
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disguise right I mean it worked for
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Clark Kent vlog over