Wednesday, May 02, 2007

Motel Mustache

Now we're talkin. Welcome to Hays, Kansas, once one of the wildest towns in the old west, now boasting over one thousand motel rooms! Wild Bill Hickok was sheriff of the town in 1867, and roughly 30 homicides took place in that span with vagrants like Calamity Jane, Wyatt Earp and "Buffalo Bill" Cody taking lives every other night over dimly-lit games of whisky-infused five card stud. Hays was the epitome of the "lawless" western town, with dance halls and great bars to die in on every dusty corner. Toward the end of the 1870's Hays calmed considerably, nearly everybody fun was dead, and Russian immigrants began to populate the region.

Not that its history is entirely violent, Hays also boasts a number of artists, including Alexander Gardner, who makes these nifty three-dimensional photos you may or may not have seen:So if you put on a pair of 3-D glasses, you can actually see the real image, which looks like something along these lines:
Four Day's Distance: 22.62 miles

Total Distance Covered: 1254.76 miles

Leaving Hays, Kansas

1 Comments:

At 5:13 PM , Blogger Kenning said...

I'm going back to the Phesant Run Inn this summer to find that girl in the picture.

 

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