calfoxwc Posted September 12, 2021 Report Share Posted September 12, 2021 After we went out west - drive through N. tip of Colorado, through far west Montana, spent 7 days at Custer State Park, west to the Badlands twice, went to the Visitor Center, etc etc etc....heard a presentation from Ryan Little Eagle, have maybe 150 pics and videos of a lot of bison right next to our car..... it gives a whole new amazement at the making of "Dances With Wolves". https://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/blog/2009-09-21/costners-connection-black-hills we have pics of us with these statues - they are amazing. Costner explains that originally he had them made for a hotel in that area....but later put them at the Visitor's center. Actually, I think we drove about 4000 miles altogether. It was an awesome adventure of a lifetime. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 On 9/11/2021 at 8:58 PM, calfoxwc said: After we went out west - drive through N. tip of Colorado, through far west Montana, spent 7 days at Custer State Park, west to the Badlands twice, went to the Visitor Center, etc etc etc....heard a presentation from Ryan Little Eagle, have maybe 150 pics and videos of a lot of bison right next to our car..... it gives a whole new amazement at the making of "Dances With Wolves". https://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/blog/2009-09-21/costners-connection-black-hills we have pics of us with these statues - they are amazing. Costner explains that originally he had them made for a hotel in that area....but later put them at the Visitor's center. Actually, I think we drove about 4000 miles altogether. It was an awesome adventure of a lifetime. I have not seen this place so I will put it on my bucket list. https://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/business/tatanka-story-bison And since you liked your entire trip let me recommend this novel to you which was published at the 100th year of Colorado statehood in 1976 by this famous author for whom the library at the U. of Northern Colorado was named. He did a lot of his research and writing in that library. I started a grad degree program there and the novel came out when I was there. It is well worth a read or a listen on Audible. BTW Centennial is a thinly disguised name for Greeley, Colo. where Michener wrote the novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 1 hour ago, TexasAg1969 said: I have not seen this place so I will put it on my bucket list. https://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/business/tatanka-story-bison And since you liked your entire trip let me recommend this novel to you which was published at the 100th year of Colorado statehood in 1976 by this famous author for whom the library at the U. of Northern Colorado was named. He did a lot of his research and writing in that library. I started a grad degree program there and the novel came out when I was there. It is well worth a read or a listen on Audible. BTW Centennial is a thinly disguised name for Greeley, Colo. where Michener wrote the novel. I did read Chesapeake and liked it a lot. WSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted October 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 2 hours ago, TexasAg1969 said: I have not seen this place so I will put it on my bucket list. https://www.blackhillsbadlands.com/business/tatanka-story-bison And since you liked your entire trip let me recommend this novel to you which was published at the 100th year of Colorado statehood in 1976 by this famous author for whom the library at the U. of Northern Colorado was named. He did a lot of his research and writing in that library. I started a grad degree program there and the novel came out when I was there. It is well worth a read or a listen on Audible. BTW Centennial is a thinly disguised name for Greeley, Colo. where Michener wrote the novel. I will get a copy of that. Right now, I am reading... it is really terrific - about this man who was a frontiersman who had many, many adventures out west. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted October 14, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 Another book - (we got several at a garage sale in some town - new development in S. Dakota)... we bought and read - "Crying Wind" - a fascinating autobiography....a look at the poverty stricken life of a 15 year old American Indian girl on a reservation - and her struggles to understand life around her, and understand their religious views - who moved into town...and learned to adapt to town life.... it's funny at times, early on it's very tragic and sad often, and uplifting later on. Not a big book. Just a special one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crying_Wind Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 9 hours ago, Westside Steve said: I did read Chesapeake and liked it a lot. WSS I may have to download that on Audible. I have been using that for many books because I have a reading disability that keeps me reading everything at the pace of a history book, i.e. slowwwwwwwwwwwww. LOL! It's been a blessing. I completed the second of Shelby Foote's Civil War trilogy ((I read the first on my own) and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich which I have in hardback, but never attempted until Audible. Right now I'm listening to Don Quixote, another I always wanted to read. I fly to London non-stop next week and plan to keep listening. I listen while on my bike for an hour every day if the weather permits. Eventually I will get the 3rd Shelby Foote book. I have signed Easton Press leatherbound copies of the 3. Good thing he signed before he croaked. 🐸 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 7 hours ago, calfoxwc said: I will get a copy of that. Right now, I am reading... it is really terrific - about this man who was a frontiersman who had many, many adventures out west. In the novel he talks about a place called Rattlesnake Buttes which in actuality is Pawnee Buttes in the Pawnee National Grasslands NE of Greeley. He called it that because there really are a ton of rattlesnakes out there. Those grasslands could have passed for the area in Dances With Wolves. Been out there just to see what he was describing. It was part of the territory of the great northern Buffalo herd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted October 14, 2021 Report Share Posted October 14, 2021 13 minutes ago, TexasAg1969 said: I may have to download that on Audible. I have been using that for many books because I have a reading disability that keeps me reading everything at the pace of a history book, i.e. slowwwwwwwwwwwww. LOL! It's been a blessing. I completed the second of Shelby Foote's Civil War trilogy ((I read the first on my own) and Rise and Fall of the Third Reich which I have in hardback, but never attempted until Audible. Right now I'm listening to Don Quixote, another I always wanted to read. I fly to London non-stop next week and plan to keep listening. I listen while on my bike for an hour every day if the weather permits. Eventually I will get the 3rd Shelby Foote book. I have a signed Easton Press leatherbound copies of the 3. Good thing he signed before he croaked. 🐸 I hear you. I have been binging Cormac McCarthy the last few weeks. WSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted October 16, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 On 10/14/2021 at 5:19 PM, TexasAg1969 said: In the novel he talks about a place called Rattlesnake Buttes which in actuality is Pawnee Buttes in the Pawnee National Grasslands NE of Greeley. He called it that because there really are a ton of rattlesnakes out there. Those grasslands could have passed for the area in Dances With Wolves. Been out there just to see what he was describing. It was part of the territory of the great northern Buffalo herd. no surprise, we drove through the Pawnee National Grasslands on our way to Fort Collins Colorado. It is fascinating to see. https://www.uncovercolorado.com/national-lands/pawnee-national-grassland/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted October 16, 2021 Report Share Posted October 16, 2021 12 hours ago, calfoxwc said: no surprise, we drove through the Pawnee National Grasslands on our way to Fort Collins Colorado. It is fascinating to see. https://www.uncovercolorado.com/national-lands/pawnee-national-grassland/ Did you drive close enough to see the twin Buttes? They are very distinctive out there, but just a little off main roads. But you can certainly see a long way with no trees to block the views. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted October 17, 2021 Author Report Share Posted October 17, 2021 10 hours ago, TexasAg1969 said: Did you drive close enough to see the twin Buttes? They are very distinctive out there, but just a little off main roads. But you can certainly see a long way with no trees to block the views. I don't think we saw any of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickers Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 Greatest movie ever was the Godfather saga hands down... Nothing comes even remotely close... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 47 minutes ago, nickers said: Greatest movie ever was the Godfather saga hands down... Nothing comes even remotely close... Oh I think there are a few films on that same level but not many and none better. WSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickers Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 2 hours ago, Westside Steve said: Oh I think there are a few films on that same level but not many and none better. WSS Shawshank comes about the closest for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 3 minutes ago, nickers said: Shawshank comes about the closest for me... I wouldn't personally put it in the top 10 but it was fine. WSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickers Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 22 minutes ago, Westside Steve said: I wouldn't personally put it in the top 10 but it was fine. WSS I thought it was phenomenal and I also thought Morgan Freeman stole the show... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 2 hours ago, nickers said: I thought it was phenomenal and I also thought Morgan Freeman stole the show... Not picking on you it's just I think personally in my top 10 it doesn't make it.. WSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickers Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, Westside Steve said: Not picking on you it's just I think personally in my top 10 it doesn't make it.. WSS Fair enough... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted October 18, 2021 Report Share Posted October 18, 2021 2 minutes ago, nickers said: Fair enough... Even a top-10 is too constricting. I would have a rough time between my number 10 and my number 11. Haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TexasAg1969 Posted December 3, 2021 Report Share Posted December 3, 2021 Lawrence of Arabia has to be up in that top 10 somewhere. One of my top 5 anyway. I agree on Godfather I & II, but not III. It did not come close to the first two. And lessor known is Out of Africa. I just loved the panoramic scenes and the true story behind it. Much was filmed on the original farm. BTW-"Stella!!" https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-streetcar-named-desire-opens-on-broadway?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2021-1203-12032021&om_rid= 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickers Posted December 4, 2021 Report Share Posted December 4, 2021 On 10/18/2021 at 12:23 PM, Westside Steve said: Even a top-10 is too constricting. I would have a rough time between my number 10 and my number 11. Haha. The 10 Commandments )Charlton Heston) is up there for me as well as Stanley Kubrick's 2001:A Space Oddessey 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted December 4, 2021 Report Share Posted December 4, 2021 7 hours ago, nickers said: The 10 Commandments )Charlton Heston) is up there for me as well as Stanley Kubrick's 2001:A Space Oddessey I believe 2001 is a landmark but I don't think it stands the test of time as well as some others. WSS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickers Posted December 4, 2021 Report Share Posted December 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Westside Steve said: I believe 2001 is a landmark but I don't think it stands the test of time as well as some others. WSS It's one of those movies that requires a lot of inner interpretation I suppose... Not everyone gets it... For me it was a deep , stark look into humanity... Where we began.. Where we might end up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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