Tuesday, February 2, 2010

"Please don't tease the rattlesnakes"

Samuel Western, winner of a Wyoming Arts Council creative writing fellowship in 2000, wrote an article for WyoFile about the Vore Buffalo Jump near Sundance. It starts off with a bang (or maybe we should say "bite"):

...A sign warns: Please do not tease the rattlesnakes.

Not your normal tourist welcome message perhaps. But for all its lack of charm, the Vore Buffalo Jump is an utterly remarkable place. For anyone traveling in the Black Hills or visiting Devils Tower in northeast Wyoming, in fact, this amazing and little-known phenomenon is worth a short detour...

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