Just the other day, here, I posted an article about the Revolution In Rural Transportation. It can be easy to over do a thesis, and hopefully I haven't there, but that topic explored how parts of the Wyoming high country, or even just the back country, was inaccessible for much of the year. Elsewhere here I've explored just how long it used to take to go from one area to another.
Here's a practical example from this Fall. These are photos that were taking trailing out of the Big Horns. Granted, this is pushing cattle. If a person was just riding, they'd make better time. Still, it's illustrative as to how distance used to be covered more slowly. And, and perhaps more significantly, it's an example of how distances once seemed so much more vast. I can, at least in nice weather, easily drive up to this location and back home in much less than a day. And some of these distances, which take a long time to cover pushing cattle, take under an hour on the road, by truck.
Day one, gathering and start of the trail.
The Camp.
Self portrait, day two.
Lonely bull.
The slope, day three.
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