Monthly Archives: February 2012

If You Squint Just a Bit . . .

From colonial times until the late Industrial Revolution in the mid 1800s, America was a largely rural and agrarian nation.  Most people lived on farms or in small towns.  The cities that existed were a mere shadow of what they … Continue reading

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Originally posted on besthike.com:
Steve Myers: The ultimate goal is to establish, develop, maintain, preserve and promote a long distance, public, non-motorized trail running north/south through the short grass prairies of the Great Plains of North America … a…

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Around for a Long Time to Come

It’s nice to know that there are some successful trail stories out there.  It’s even better to find one in the Great Plains!  The Maah Daah Hey National Recreation Trail in western North Dakota is one such success story.  The … Continue reading

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It is Accomplished

Huzzah! IRS Form 1023 is in the mail!  It took close to a month to sort everything out, but in the end, I feel good about the finished product.  It’s now a waiting game for an unspecified amount of time … Continue reading

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IRS Form 1023 – Chapter II

OK.  Here’s an update on the status of the daunting application known as IRS Form 1023. I am pleased to report that it is nearly complete.  The issue I wrote about earlier has been cleared up (It cost me an … Continue reading

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Montana’s Cowboy Artist

As promised last week, let’s take a  brief look at another artist of the plains, Charles Marion Russell.  Born in Missouri, Russell traveled to Montana as a young man in the late 1800s. He worked as a ranch hand through … Continue reading

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