WILD, WILD WEST - 2010

8 days from Jackson to Rapid City (ANF)

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Vacation Overview

Your family vacation begins in Jackson, Wyoming, where you board a covered wagon and ride into Cache Creek Canyon for a chuck wagon cookout and a Wild West show—the perfect start to an all-out Western vacation. The next day, set out on a Snake River adventure, which takes you beneath the Grand Tetons. Continue north through Grand Teton National Park and on to Yellowstone National Park. Explore the backcountry and be ready for fun and adventure as you immerse yourself in Yellowstone’s natural wonders. Watch for wildlife as you leave Yellowstone and head to Cody to visit the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and Cody Rodeo.

Then drive through the Bighorn Mountains on your way to Little Bighorn Battlefield for a tour of the battlegrounds where Custer was defeated. In South Dakota, see Crazy Horse Memorial and Mount Rushmore National Memorial. Celebrate the end of your vacation with a farewell dinner hosted by your Tour Director. This is an adventurous and spirited escorted tour sure to please the entire family.

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A Vacation Story The “War” for the Grand Teton

In the winter of 1927, residents in the cattle town of Jackson, Wyoming began to learn of a mysterious business concern known as the Snake River Land Company that was rapidly buying up property around their picturesque valley, which is overshadowed by the dramatic Teton Mountains. Rumors soon began to spread that a plot was afoot to elbow ranchers out of the area and close off key cattle drives. Finally, in 1930, it was revealed that the company was actually a front for America’s richest man, the oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Jr. Rockefeller had visited the area three years earlier and had been stunned by its alpine beauty; a visionary philanthropist, he decided to purchase the whole valley floor from private owners and donate it to the United States Government for an extension of the Grand Teton National Park, which was then only a tiny enclave covering the remotest mountain zones. But tempers flared against Rockefeller’s secrecy; many suspected that the magnate might use the land for his own private ends.