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Above the North Platte River Valley about one half mile south Guernsey, Wyoming, these preserved Oregon Trail ruts are more than four feet deep!

At this point the trail started winding up towards South Pass while wagon wheels, draft animals, and people wore down the intentionally cut trail into a sandstone ridge during its heavy usage from 1841 through 1869. This half-mile stretch is "unsurpassed" and is the best-preserved set of Oregon Trail ruts anywhere along its former length and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966. The site is maintained as a State Historic Site within Guernsey State Park, which separately was declared a National Historic Landmark for its Civilian Conservation Corps structures, unrelated to the Oregon Trail Ruts.

The 2,000 mile long Oregon Trail is a tribute to the human spirit. People from all walks of life sold most of their possessions, piled what was left in a wagon and journeyed west in search of a better life heading to Orego...

Photography is all about using light to capture the emotion and beauty of a fleeting moment. For me, this adventure began with a single spring image using a small Kodak film camera of a freshly watered central Kansas ditch and has come full circle using modern digital techniques. My first camera was acquired by trading an ancient Royal typewriter to a fellow college student who was desperate to finish a term paper. It was a long time ago and that camera was my passport to an art that has fascinated me ever since. I owned and operated a professional studio in central Kansas for 20 years and moved to Colorado in 1994. Part of the studio's early success came from creating outdoor portraiture using controlled lighting...