The Sierra’s Secret Seclusion – Rock Creek Lodge

Written by Rob LaGrone


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After dinner you can join other guests inrepparttar rustic lodge building for a board game (byrepparttar 133633 woodstove) or simply read a book fromrepparttar 133634 shelf. There's a pay phone atrepparttar 133635 lodge, but don't expect phones, TVs, or internet connections inrepparttar 133636 cabins.

The 14 large and small cabins have kitchens, comfortable beds, and electricity, and eight of them (the "modern cabins") have hot water and bathrooms. For guests inrepparttar 133637 six "rustic cabins" andrepparttar 133638 lodge's dorm accommodations there's a communal bathroom with showers, and outhouse-style restrooms are also close by, although they are closed in winter.

Winter 2003-2004 rates are as follows: $95 per person, per night for rustic cabins, $120 for modern cabins. Note that winter prices include your delicious dinner (including beer and wine), breakfast, trail passes, taxes, and your all-important snowmobile ride fromrepparttar 133639 lower canyon uprepparttar 133640 unplowed road torepparttar 133641 lodge and back. That's right -repparttar 133642 place becomes inaccessible to cars in winter. Talk about splendid isolation!

Forrepparttar 133643 adventurous,repparttar 133644 Lodge even rents a backcountry hut way up at Mosquito Flat. Go to www.rockcreeklodge for more information and current rates. Then pack your bags, getrepparttar 133645 kids and/orrepparttar 133646 dog intorepparttar 133647 car (pets are allowed for a small extra fee) and get moving.

Byrepparttar 133648 way, bring a flashlight, 'cause it gets dark underrepparttar 133649 pines. After all that wine and dessert, take your partner for a romantic stroll alongrepparttar 133650 road or acrossrepparttar 133651 meadow and look up;repparttar 133652 stars look stunning from this elevation. You can also keep warm inrepparttar 133653 genuine Finnish sauna – a luxurious treat on a winter's evening. Then make your way back torepparttar 133654 cabin, stoke uprepparttar 133655 fire inrepparttar 133656 stove, and burrow underrepparttar 133657 blankets for a well-earned night's sleep. Ahhh . . !

Rock Creek Lodge is open year around. You will need all that firewood duringrepparttar 133658 rugged Sierra winter.

You did earn your night's sleep, didn't you?

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Deadwood South Dakota Bets On a Deadman’s Hand

Written by Kriss Hammond


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Hickok had a couple of habits that served him well inrepparttar rowdy bars ofrepparttar 133632 West. He'd pour his drinks with his left hand, letting his best gun hand atrepparttar 133633 ready. When gambling, Hickok wanted to sit with his back to a wall, eliminatingrepparttar 133634 possibility that an enemy could simply walk up to his back and blow his head off.

Ironically, that's exactly what happened on August 2, 1876, during a card game inrepparttar 133635 No. 10 Saloon. Hickok walked in and noticed a poker game was in progress, butrepparttar 133636 only empty seat atrepparttar 133637 table faced away fromrepparttar 133638 saloon's doorway. Hickok failed to persuade others atrepparttar 133639 table to trade seats with him, and then decided to takerepparttar 133640 open seat.

It proved to be a fatal mistake.

Focused on a game in which he'd already lost several hands, Hickok never saw a loafer named Jack McCall walk up within three feet, pull a .45 out of his coat and pullrepparttar 133641 trigger. The bullet blew through Hickok's head and out his cheek, lodging inrepparttar 133642 wrist of a gambler onrepparttar 133643 other side ofrepparttar 133644 table.

Hickok spilled his hand — pairs of black aces and eights — known forevermore as "Deadman's Hand."

Quickly apprehended, McCall said he'd killed Hickok because "Wild Bill" had killed his brother. A miners' court figured that was an acceptable defense and let him go. The drunken McCall just couldn't keep his mouth shut aboutrepparttar 133645 killing. He bragged one too many times that he'd killed Hickok and was arrested, tried in Yankton, South Dakota and hung on March 1, 1877.

Calamity Jane was born

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