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Article: One Great Vacation, With Skunk
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 20, 1995
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Our family saw marvelous, stirring things last summer on a trip
to Yellowstone National Park, the Little Bighorn Battlefield National
Monument, and other spots in Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.
But the high point for our 7-year-old daughter was our encounter
with a dead skunk on a sparsely traveled road on the Wind River
Indian Reservation in Wyoming.
Now, when she talks about the trip, she says she liked the
animals we saw in Yellowstone best - the many elk and the single bull
moose we joined a huge crowd to gawk at across a lake, and the two
bison that hung around our cabin in the park's Grand Canyon area. At
the time, though, I would have bet the cost of our rental car that it
was ...