Today, Monday, we continued to drive through the great state of Montana and set up camp in Deer Lodge. After setting the RV up we discovered the Grant-Kohrs Ranch National Historic Site. Turns out that this ranch not only has all of the original equipment and furnishings from its original establishment, but detailed written records for its entire history. As a result the Park Service continues to keep it a working ranch to maintain this continuous history. There are guided tours of the main house and you can freely roam the grounds viewing a working blacksmith and chuck wagon among other displays.www.nps.gov/grko
The only other site of interest in Deer Lodge is the original Montana State Prison. But it was at the end of the day and they wanted $9 for the tour, so we skipped it; maybe next time? Dan did discover a dive/bar called the Corner Office, leading him to tell Corrie – he needed to stop by the office.
Trivia: What was unique about Arbuckles’ Ariosa Coffee, that led it to be the only coffee used in the West?
2 comments:
Stumbled across your awesome blog today, and will keep coming back to check on your progress around the country. Wish you many years of exciting travels and blogging. Where are the answers to the trivia questions? :) Happy Trails To You! PratherFamilyBlog.blogspot.com
thanks for your kind words, be interested in knowing how you found our modest BLOG? we have been inserting Trivia Questions now and then to see if anyone was actually reading the BLOG. since you are first one to ask for answer, you must be only one reading it!?! anyway, we will go back and figure a way to give answers to all past questions, but obviously will take time. answer to coffee question is that they figured out how to roast beans and coat roasted beans so they would not spoil for months, thereby becoming first coffee you could ship long distance and the only one suitable for cattle drives or wagon trains. many people in west USA thought this was only coffee in the world.
corrie & dan
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