2026 sauntering home from Lewis & Clark trip – part 72: 5-day drive to The Henry Ford
As we left the Mount Rushmore area in the southwest corner of South Dakota, we started a 5-day drive to the Detroit area so we could see The Henry Ford...
2026 sauntering home from Lewis & Clark trip – part 71: the when, where, why, and how of Mount Rushmore and one last look
As we drove toward Mount Rushmore, I began to realize that I really had no idea of the background behind this monument. The only other large rock sculpture I knew...
2026 sauntering home from Lewis & Clark trip – part 70: a cattle trail, Chief Crazy Horse monument, and Mount Rushmore during the day and at night
After leaving Sheridan, our next stop was going to be the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation in Detroit, but Barney realized that we were going to be passing by...
2026 sauntering home from Lewis & Clark trip – part 69: the Kendrick mansion at Trail End
After learning about John Kendrick’s background in Texas and then Wyoming as a cowboy, rancher, and politician, in this post we’ll walk around the house he had built in the...
2026 sauntering home from Lewis & Clark trip – part 68: an orphan to a cowboy to a Wyoming U.S. Senator
As we were driving around Sheridan, we kept seeing signs on the highway for Trail End State Historic Park, so of course we had to go explore. John Benjamin Kendrick...