Before we drove through the park we toured Roosevelt’s cabin. It was a lot smaller than one would expect. This area was Roosevelt’s ranch but he did not spend a lot of time here. He came here for short periods to hunt and to be here for the yearly round up of the cattle. There are more buffalo here now than when Roosevelt lived here. We had a great drive through the park. We saw lots of buffalo, prairie dogs and one horse. The buffalo and prairie dogs were next to the road, the one horse we saw was a long way from the road and I would not have seen it if it had not been pointed out to me. We could only see it with binoculars.
This first picture of wildlife was watching us when we were getting in the truck after lunch. The next ones are Roosevelt’s cabin, it had 3 rooms and a loft. Shown are the kitchen, dining and office as one room, bedroom had place to wash and take care of necessary things. Not pictured is the storage room and loft. This cabin was located on a busy road and he had lots of visitors and all were welcome to set around the stove in a rocker which was Roosevelt’s favorite place to set. The picture with the stove has a vessel that is not seen in homes today. Also the next picture has a two vessels not seen today.
Some of the wildlife and scenery. This first buffalo was laying in the shade all by himself. The next picture is one of the prairie dogs. We could hear them talking to each other with barks and squeaks. The rest of the pictures were taken through out the park. We were in the park during the middle of the day with temperature near 90 degrees. I think if we had been there in the morning we would have seen more wildlife
This calf was hungry and was going to get lunch no matter how many cars were there.
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