One day after we left Ash Hollow, we travel by Chimney Rock. It is a huge tower of rock that blocks out the sun. It was magnificent. You could never see something that spectacular in Philadelphia. I keep looking back at the rock, watching it disappear into the distance, the sunlight fading. Fort Laramie is a great place to call home, if you are a trapper. It is just a trapper trading post. Lots of bison furs were transported back to Saint Louis in the twelve hours that we were at the fort. Just in case the fall prairie winds are bitter this year, I decided to buy a few furs of my own. About halfway to Independence rock, Pat saw a deer. In Iowa, he are deer all winter. He said that deer is a delicacy. He went after the deer. An hour
