A climb up onto the rolling plains from Billings, then across the Prior Creek Valley towards the Big Horn River country (I gotta look up who the heck Prior was, he has a bunch of stuff named after him out here)….

Crossing the Yellowstone leaving Billings....

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Followed by maybe 50 miles of open country. A heat wave, highs in the upper nineties that day, about average for Texas, and the sun ain't as intense up here.....

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When its open and flat, gets hard to recall what was where, judging by the shadows this was late afternoon....

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A prairie pothole, a bunch of our waterfowl breed in these things.....

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The Big Horn River Valley and Hardin at last, it was a long, hot day. Just missed getting a photo of a flock of cranes here....

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"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744