Road Trip I

Re:
Road Trip 2010
and the Completion of all 50 States, approximately 4400 miles from September 7th to 16th

Destination One:

Tall Grass Prairie in Oklahoma located just outside the town of Pawhuska. This prairie contains miles and miles of dirt/gravel roads which lead to somewhere and no-where. Bison range the grass but were visible in the far distance. The station was closed but a one mile hike put me close to the grass and got me acclimated and starting to get settled after 2 ½ days of driving and feeling that I had to get somewhere fast (It’s interesting that my somewhere was a no-where!). The grasslands preserve was a throwback to the expansive grasslands of the pre-settlement days that stretched well into Texas. They are located in the northeast corner of Oklahoma in Osage County, within a Native American Reservation. Apropos since grasslands and bison are essential to a once Indian culture.

N.B. The Osage purchased this reservation after they were schemed out of their original land by western moving European Americans and the Federal Government. They were allowed to acquire this land only because it was useless at the time. Of course later on oil was found…