The Wild West Town of Deadwood In Black Hills of South Dakota - Boot Hill & Wild Bill Hickok History
Deadwood & Sturgis South Dakota
Transcript
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today's adventure brings me to the black
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hills of south dakota
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as the recording of this tuesday
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june 21st
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2022
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i am heading
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to deadwood
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welcome everyone
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adam the woo here piping high
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caffeinated beverage the slogan
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also a lot of motorcycles through here
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just down the way
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is sturgis which i will i'll be swinging
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through sturgis as well where there's a
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massive motorcycle rally every year
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which i have never been to and speaking
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of never been been to certain places i
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have never been to
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where the wild
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west
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lives oh i'm so excited
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i'm inviting you to join me
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down that way that's where i'm going
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that's where i'm that's where i'm
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starting i'll probably go deadwood and
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then i'll go sturgess and
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who knows where else wherever the wind
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blows and the wind is blowing it feels
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great out here
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i'm also standing on this kind of
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incline
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not noticeable and you would have never
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known it unless i showed it
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okay i gotta go going down
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really is such a beautiful area with
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those rocks
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even these quaint little homes leading
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into the historic main street
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right up here
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and you can drive underneath this
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archway i opted to park at the visitor
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center
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or the welcome center i should say
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and i'm going to walk down main street
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that old stagecoach is being pulled by a
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golf cart
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a nice peaceful stream runs parallel to
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the town itself
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there's a stairwell there that kind of
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leads to
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leads to nothing
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you get a little closer to the water
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the side of that vehicle has the town's
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name on it and there's trolleys
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that roll down main street also
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established in 1876
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about to head down main street there's a
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saloon a bank
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a liquor store
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city hall all kind of stuff
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10 lizzie gaming resort right here i
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just should mention that the sturgis
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bike rally does not happen until august
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but sturgis is where it is located which
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is kind of one of the next towns over
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and one of the most notable figures
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around these parts
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an homage to wild bill hook hickok sits
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right over here and there's a chair next
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to him so anyone could sit next just
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don't hold any cards
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here in this town because that was how
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he met
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his demise
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playing poker
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back on august 2nd 1876
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right here in town
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the poker hand he was holding was two
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pairs
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black aces
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and eights
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became known
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as the dead man's hand
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and bested
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looks very comfortable that's a that's a
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comfortable position there goes the
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trolley now that i'm sitting here next
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to wild bill
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that's a good name wild bill
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if you're
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but you have the name wild you have a
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reputation to uphold but i'm realizing
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this chair is not a permanent
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area the chair someone moved
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from right over there at that table
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and i'm probably not the first person to
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get a
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little photo op
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with wild bill here here now there's a
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place right across the way here called
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mr wu's w-u-s
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and they have gaming you can play some
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slots over there
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all of this wood art is carved out of
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someone with a chainsaw's talent that is
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a very tall version of a sasquatch right
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there the hand of cards that he was
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dealt
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one could say
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an old pro prospector
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here's an old prospector
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oh that's pretty cool not only is there
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someone in there carving stuff with a
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chainsaw
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but this guy is doing a little woodwork
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or a little fire burning
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after what has been carved with the
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chainsaw he takes that blowtorch
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and kind of puts like a little
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fire burn coating on
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and i really like how they take old
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photographs and they place them on the
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electrical boxes
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in front of the same
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items of what you're looking at for
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example
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this here
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was an old gas station
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now it's a tasting room
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right over here and this part is a
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a winery now now it's kind of tough to
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read because the wind is kind of
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flopping that banner around
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but the town will be celebrating its
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100th anniversary from july 24th to july
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30th of this year
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that's going to be a big deal
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okay the wind just subsided for a minute
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so it can be red
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days of 76.
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all right i gotta say first impression
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of this town awesome look at this the
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nugget saloon historic site of pam's
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purple door closed by the fbi and state
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agents
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champion spark plugs little signage up
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there and this neon for wild bills bar
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original location of saloon number 10
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that sign below it says aha now i know
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why they call it the wild bill bar this
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says this has the historical
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information right here got the trolley
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going by right now sharing a little
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information of course if you're on the
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trolley i don't know if you could get
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off and kind of take a gander inside
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but stepping inside definitely has that
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kind of old wild west feel not really
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sure exactly where
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what table it was at these are not the
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original tables in here obviously
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but the stuff the art decor on the wall
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really gives you the gives you the vibe
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the proper vibe
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over here above the stockade which
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appears to be another old prospector is
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the buffalo saloon and steakhouse and
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there's a buffalo bison right there oh
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where
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i don't know where is to where is tim
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maybe that was tim hawk i don't know who
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tim is but oh look at this
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you could sit in a in a horse's rear end
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and not only a horse but you could also
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and an old advertisement up there for
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bodega henry george oh wait what is that
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sound
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i'm hearing some
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horse hooves
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no way
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look at this
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yes
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it says that goes all the way to
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cheyenne no that can't be right
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could it be
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horse drawn carriage going by stagecoach
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ride saloon number 10 also known as the
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utter place
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now saloon number 10 is where they have
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the chair
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that wild bill was sitting in inside
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old style saloon number ten
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the actual chair
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of the demise of wild bill hickok
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old west legend
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lives on a folklore until the end of
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time
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this is the chair and it's not just the
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chair that's interesting that they have
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inside saloon number 10. that's a lot of
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the decor that on top of the ceiling and
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the roof and the
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sides of the walls a lot of the decor
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accurately themed to that era that is
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for sure pretty interesting place to
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wander around it you would never know
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all these unique items are in there
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from the street until you step in and
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you're like holy cow all this exists in
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here
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train station or formerly the train
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station
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and those at some point those logs will
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eventually become
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artwork
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or they're going somewhere else but
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that's my guess
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and here's a different angle you see
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where the passengers would be waiting
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for the train on this
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side as that camper goes by it looks
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like there's a
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very unique retro looking
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pump house over here
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this whole corner is like a throwback in
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time with jay hot and botched the grocer
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a little advertisement there
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up on the side of this building it says
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wholesale grocers
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from back in the day
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black hills merchandise company there's
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also the butch cassidy and sundance kid
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sweets
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butch cassidy sweets you could stay in
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there
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and pretend like you're the sundance kid
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up and up in those lofts there is no
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shortage of
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wild bill
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here in town
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in fact
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here's a
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a bust of him looking up to the heavens
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he's almost looking directly into the
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sun there
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little sun glare he's like don't don't
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stare into the sun bill here's a little
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information about the bust itself
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there he is carving look at this he's
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hand chiseling it i wouldn't guess it's
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that big from
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down below kind of looking up at it but
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i guess now that i'm kind of seeing it
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from this angle
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you know it's kind of tall up so you're
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not really seeing the magnitude and size
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of it
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yeah look
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there he is standing underneath it back
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in 1955.
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it's been in this spot since 50 at least
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since 55.
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there it is in 51 before was put up on
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the pedestal
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and the guy that was also just standing
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here him and his wife are telling me
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some of the sites around town he said
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definitely check out the adams
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museum
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right over here so i'm gonna check that
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out for his recommendation all right
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stepped inside
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this guy's giving me a passport into
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there's a suggested donation of five
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dollars to get in so put the money in
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the box
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and this is a panorama from
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1895.
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according to that
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and this is the addams museum there were
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adam bros
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he was born in illinois in troy grove
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illinois
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i like that i like that
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artistic representation of
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mr wild bill
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pardon me
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and this was the first locomotive used
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in the black hills
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1879
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homestake mining company
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out of baldwin locomotive works in
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philadelphia 1879 stamped right there on
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the front
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piece of locomotive history right back
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over here on main again that's not a
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chainsaw i'm hearing
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well you're doing some kind of heavy
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construction over there on hickox at
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hickok
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the soothing sound
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of progress
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a ghost sign
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from this angle i'm zoomed in and i'm
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kind of walking but yeah there it is
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see the hand holding the coca-cola
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bottle now it almost seems as if
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something was written on the side of
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this wall it's now a beef jerky
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experience store
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oh wait hold on
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yes definitely with something advertised
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and inscribed here on the side of the
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brick but
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i always call these wheel of fortune
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moments where you can't really
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tell what the letters say this might be
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the toughest i've ever seen
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there's no really really no way of
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knowing went back to my car and drove up
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partially up mount moriah
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i'm gonna try to find a couple
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headstones in here
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and normally you don't have to pay
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admission to go
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into something like this nor are there
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tour buses that drive up into them
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but here there are
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there is an admission fee and yes
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a gift shop
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admission booth
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got a little information
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here this brochure map and tour guide
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now i parked way down there
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if you do one of the tours through town
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and you're on this bus
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you can drive right up
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to this very unique headstone
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which there is a queue line
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to see wild bill
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there's a queue
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there's people there's like a whole
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queue line
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just people get their photo with the
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bust of wild blue hillcock
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on top of his headstone that's amazing
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and also calamity jane is here as well
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1903 august 1st of 1903
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which was one day prior
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to the same day
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of wild bill but while bill was 1876
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she requested to be beside
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that's interesting there's also a very
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historic photo of her
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up there
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with the headstone before the bus was
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put on there
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and i'll kind of show that photo but
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when she came to visit wild bill
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she got a photo up there and it's still
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the
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the same portion of the lengthy part of
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the headstone but not the the bus was
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added way later
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that's neat i never realized that she
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requested to be right beside him and
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here's that photo i was referring to of
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calamity jane
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standing in front of where wild bill is
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way back then before her passing
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obviously the bust was not added to the
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pillar there
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and then years later
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laid beside him and that photo of her
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she would have been standing at the
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ascension
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kind of looking down this very steep
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hill here
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you can see in the photo that the
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kind of the slant of the hillsides that
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she would have been above
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of this corner
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and you know what now that i'm looking
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at it this entire thing has been
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replaced but there was kind of a
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cylinder rectangle
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looking one just like this but this is a
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whole new
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item that was placed here
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oh wow
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people have placed cards here
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lots of coins
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pennies nickels quarters some pine cones
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commissioned by the city
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back in august of 2002
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david r young was the sculptor
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someone's doing a little weed eating out
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here i can hear the weed eater
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also next to calamity
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and wild bill is potato creek
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johnny
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now i was curious who potato creek
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johnny was so i looked it up here on
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that little brochure that they gave me
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and he found one of the largest gold
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nuggets ever
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and he was only four feet three inches
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tall
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potato creek johnny that's him right
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and reading a little more
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through the brochure also there's an
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overlook down there i'm gonna walk up to
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it but right now i've just kind of sat
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on this little
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this little stoop and it wasn't a weed
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eater someone's up there doing a little
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tree trimming
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some of that they're doing some tree
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trimming but it appears as if the
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original markers
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were stolen
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vandalized and destroyed by souvenir not
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stolen but vandalizing destroyed by
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souvenir hunters
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and then calamity jane very interesting
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she had a love and an affection of
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but it says the feeling was apparently
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not reciprocated
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dang
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and this is known as
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boot hill i think that tree limb just
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fell
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tombstone arizona oh there's preacher
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smith
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tombstone arizona
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also has a boot hill there's probably
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more than one
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boot hill obviously there's more than
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one
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preacher smith i was looking for his as
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well
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he was on his way from deadwood to crook
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city
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to preach
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this flag
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said to be never taken down
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obviously if it's replaced by another
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flag due to
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weather and whatnot and
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after it needs to be replaced possibly
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but it was granted permission to never
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be taken down
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and to be flown 24 hours a day
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you don't see that too often
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places that will fly the flag 24 hours a
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day
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and there's an overlook here
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that you can look down into the town
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itself
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very beautiful overlook
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okay down the hill and this is around
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the backside of the main street all
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right heading over to sturgis now about
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a 15 mile commute well 15 minute
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commute give or take
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should be there shortly
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looks like they're doing a little bit of
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work a little roofing over there at the
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gift shop
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pulling down some
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some of the metal shingles
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they have the full word sturgis up on
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the side of the hill
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a lot of times when you see mountains
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you'll see this the first initial
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that's the whole word
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corner of harley-davidson way and main
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street
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have arrived downtown sturgis which i
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would imagine is considerably
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less people than there is during the
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the bike event they have every year this
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place it's a real beehive of activity
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got the old neon here of the oasis got a
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little
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couple palm trees and a martini glass
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all the different chimes here
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at this trading company all the
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different wind chimes up top there
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very beautiful
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the last couple years or so or two out
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of the last three years give or take
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i've been to daytona's bike week
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and main street in daytona beach
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really gets pretty wild
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i think more people attend this event
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than they do bike week
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or pretty close pretty close
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i have a lot more elbow room wandering
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through here now
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that would be when the event is taking
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place all right that was an
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understatement look at this photograph
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holy cow oh no this is one heck
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of a photo op right there prairie
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emporium
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nice
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i've seen a lot of these driving around
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the classic car over here too
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and inside really quite a treasure trove
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of antiques and all kind of goodies in
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here kind of scattered all through
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this entire store
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and probably the one of the most
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exciting things in this in the store
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that the number one attraction the owner
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said he was the number one attraction
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with the number two attraction is south
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dakota's largest ball of string sturgis
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number two attraction ended up talking
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to everyone in there for quite a while
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and on the way out they said here take a
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t-shirt
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so i got a prairie emporium t-shirt a
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little antique shop right here off the
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off the main street
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and i talked to one of the guys at the
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antique shop and he said there was a
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historical building
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pointing me in the right direction too
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or check that out now here on the end of
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town the annie talent house was placed
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on the national register of historic
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places
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back in
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may of 1976.
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it's here kind of on the far end of town
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from here
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address is 1603 you can see the word
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sturgis
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up there on the hill look at the door
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door's kind of unique
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heading north from where i just was and
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pulled over noticed
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there is a evil knievel
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sculpture right there
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this is the full throttle saloon parking
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lot
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see a starlight motel
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signed back in there an old neon and
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these very large metal sculptures
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they're probably like 30 feet tall
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but what really drew my attention is is
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this muffler man with a kind of stogy
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and
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not a muffler not hold a muffler anymore
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holding a beer and a stogie and
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cowboy hat
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look at that i love a good muffler man
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i've never seen one as far as i can
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recall holding a stogie and a beer
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stokey holding
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arnold would really be proud of you
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muffler man that's right come on smoke
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that stogy come on come on do it do it
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now drove for about another 30 minutes
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or so
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an entire herd of buffalo
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or is it
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bison heading my way
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this is something
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you do not see every day well maybe in
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this area you do but rarely
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i see a lot of cows i see a lot of
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horses
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an entire herd
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of bison
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wow
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going over to the water
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they're going over the water right now
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they're all thirsty
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i don't know why i'm narrating that's a
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narrate
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but you all have to drink together or
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going in the water
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starts drinking they all gotta start
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drinking is that how it works down there
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all right i gotta move on
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see you later
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not a lot of traffic out here
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not a lot of traffic and all the years
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i've been around
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traveling
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early in my life doing family trips
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and then eventually driving on my own
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doing road trips
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joining bands touring
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going cross country
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and then starting youtube and
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doing going on this platform and then
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getting my van sleeping in my van
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traveling across the country getting the
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rv
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and traveling
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to my best of my recollection i have
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been to 47
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of the 48 continental united states
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until now
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i am now
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crossing
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into the last state of the continental
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united states
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i'm about to step foot
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finally into north dakota
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a discussion would go ahead and walk
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across
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in
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north dakota and i have been to all
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continental
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i'll see you in the next video
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the vlog