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| If you live in the mountains, you write your name on them |
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| Typical rest stops out west with concrete Teepees |
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| Red dirt mountains |
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| Looks like the picture |
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| The right place to spent Devil's Night |
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| There is an old indian ledgend that says children were being chased by a bear and were protected when the tower shot up out of the ground in order to keep the bear at bay |
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| We stopped back the next day to see the monument in the sun |
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| Also toured the museum to see how they built it |
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| Initially the carving was to be from the waist up |
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| Mini at the Monument |
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| Not sure why they are the Black Hills as they are more Green than Black |
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| The monument is in Keystone, SD a very cute old westrern town |
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| Downtown Keystone, SD |
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| Cool tunnels |
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| An inquisitive buck |
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| On our way to Minute Man Missile site |
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| Some of the landscape looks like carpet |
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| See the ink quill in the sky |
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| It was neat to be able to see the remnants of the Cold War |
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| Remember this? |
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| The Minute Man control buildings were scattered around ND, SD, NE, MT, WY, CO & MO |
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| High Impact Antennas |
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| Control room |
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| The Minute Man Guarantee |
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| Old liquid fuel rocket on right, new solid fuel Minute Man rocket on left. |
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| The guarantee is written on the 3' thick door to the control capsule |
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| The buried control capsule that controlled every 10 rockets dispersed in a wagon wheel layout. |
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| The buried capsule walls were 4' thick reinforced concrete sandwiched between 1" steel plates |
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| Patrol truck that drove around the sites. |
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| 100 of these these sites were scattered through 5 western states in plain site, though few realized it. |
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| The actual silos were a few miles away ringed around the control bldg. |
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| The retractable 40 ton concrete cover is now replaced with a skylight to view missile |
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| The only thing that separated you from the Minute man silos was a chain-link fence |
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| Entering Wall, SD |
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| Not sure why Wall Drug, SD is so popular so we had to stop |
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| It was a cute little western town |
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| With an "Old" telephone booth complete with working phone |
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| And some cute stores |
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| And some cute shoppers too |
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| And some cute cowgirls |
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| And some cute cars... |
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| Rest stops with concrete teepee structures |
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| See the helmet-less teddy bear? |
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| And a few more pictures of the "Boys" |
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| This time in the sun |
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| Pretty cool |
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| Rackin up the miles |
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| Our tour guide was from Ohio State |
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| Its soo dry here it almost looks like the desert |
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| Another beautiful Sunset on the plains of Nebraska |
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| And Pink clouds too |
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| Almost time for Trick-or-Treaters |
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| Only one state left ... except Alaska |
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