by Mike Kopp | Nov 21, 2020 | History, outdoors, Road Trip, Snowden Bridge, Things To Do, Yellowstone River
The Bridge to the Calypso Trail in the Terry Badlands As we wrote a few days ago (click here), the North Dakota Badlands has two counterparts to make a Badlands Trio, both in Montana. Besides the rock formations, they also have one other thing in common:...
by Mike Kopp | Nov 16, 2020 | Hike, Maah Daah Hey, McKenzie County, North Dakota Badlands, North Dakota scenery, Photography, Places to go, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Things To Do
Don’t isolate this winter — explore the outdoors! (See for yourself. Enjoy the winter photos.) Wow! Social critters like humans find it tough to isolate. I’m fed up with the upheaval in normal social functions. I miss the life that used to characterize the...
by Mike Kopp | Nov 1, 2020 | Dickinson, History, Montana, North Dakota Badlands, outdoors, Places to go, Road Trip, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, Things To Do
Beyond the Beautiful Badlands of North Dakota –The Badlands Trio I’ll admit I was surprised to find two siblings of the North Dakota Badlands, making a rugged set of triplets we call The Badlands Trio. I thought the gnarly layered photogenic Badlands of North...
by Mike Kopp | Oct 31, 2020 | ghosts, History, Marmarth, North Dakota history, Places to go, Small towns
Spooky Bad They are called the spooky bad lands for a reason. Long before settlers moved across the region, indigenous people considered the land to be bad. They thought it could be very spooky. Murders and untimely deaths mark the history of the region. Those...
by Mike Kopp | Oct 24, 2020 | Cowboys, ghosts, History, Marmarth, North Dakota history, Slope County
Thanks to the railroad, the years leading up to 1920 were some deadly years in Marmarth – especially between 1900 and 1920 with at least one shocking murder in town. It seems trouble followed the rail line in to town to mix it up with miners, cowboys and railroad...
