Royalty free images by Mike¹ – No. 64

West Central Arkansas, October 28, 2011.

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Royalty free images by Mike¹ – No. 63

Bannack, Montana, July 30, 2010.

This log structure was used as a holding cell for those condemned to be hanged. The structure to the right was the first jail in Montana.

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Royalty free images by Mike¹ – No. 65

Bannack, Montana, July 30, 2010.

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Royalty free images by Mike¹ – No. 62

Bannack, Montana, July 30, 2010.

The first schools in Bannack, Montana, were subscription schools – essentially private schools with parents paying tuition for their children to attend.

In 1874, Bannack Masonic Lodge No. 16 built a combination lodge and school building. The school was a public school serving students in K through 8th grade. It finally closed in the 1950s. The school was on the bottom floor and the lodge on the second.

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Royalty free images by Mike¹ – No. 61

Bannack, Montana, July 30, 2010.

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Royalty free images by Mike¹ – No. 60

Assay Office, Bannack, Montana, July 30, 2010.

Assay Office – While  most gold is 80% to 95% pure, some of Bannacks’s gold assayed as high as 99.5%. Gold scales could be found in every establishment because most services were paid for in gold. Along with being an assay office, the building also served as the Oliver Stage Station and a butcher shop.  Farm Services Administration photographer John Vachon’s notes referred to it as a former bank.

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Royalty free images by Mike¹ – No. 59

Abandoned International Truck, Bannack, Montana, July 30, 2010.

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Royalty free images by Mike¹ – No. 57

Little Joe II, New Mexico Museum of Space History, Alamogordo, New Mexico, October 14, 2011.

Little Joe II was an American rocket used from 1963–66 for five unmanned tests of the Apollo spacecraft Launch Escape System (LES), and to verify the performance of the Command Module parachute recovery system in abort mode. It was named after a similar rocket designed for the same function in Project Mercury. Launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, it was the smallest of four launch rockets used in the Apollo program.²

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2. Wikipedia, accessed 8/25/2018

Post-processing #42 |

Dark clouds over West Yellowstone, Montana, August 6, 2010 (Pentax K10D)

“West Yellowstone was incorporated in 1966 but has existed as a gateway community to Yellowstone National Park since the early 1900s.  The most recent census reported that West Yellowstone has a population of approximately 1300 people, but our winters are extreme and that number slides a bit during the colder months.   Although we are a very small community, visitation to West Yellowstone tops 4 million people per year.” ¹

It’s interesting to see that the cost of fuel 8 years ago are a bit more than we are seeing in Wisconsin eight years later.

Reference:

1. The Town of West Yellowstone website (accessed June 3, 2018)

Note:

Post-processing – Image editing to enhance the photo closer to what the eye “saw.” Images in this series are usually selected within a day or so of being edited and are either posted at the time or scheduled for posting at a later date.