Wednesday morning and we leave Cardston and head up highway 3 to Fort Macleod and a visit to Smashed-In-Head Buffalo Jump.
Where the prairie meets The Porcupine Hills. The Interpretive Centre is built in to the cliff from which the buffalo where driven over to their deaths by the native hunters, they had been doing this for over 6,000 years. The Interpretive Centre itself is worth a visit, the architect has won awards for his design and rightly so.
Inside the centre gives you an insight into how the the First Nation People lived, and then as you walk down the different levels of the building, their village life how the organized a hunt, eventually reaching the ground floor, 5 in all where they tell the story of all the digs that have taken place here over the last 100 years or .so
Leaving the sight, the Rockies can be seen in the distance
Now at The Granview RV Park in Granum about 20km north of Fort Macleod.
A couple of birdy snaps, caught these on the fence just behind our tailer, Common Grackle above and a singing American Robin below.
Thursday morning Fort Macleod. The museum concentrates on the long march of The North Western Mounted Police to get here from Manitoba- 97 days, when they then built the fort sent the whiskey traders packing back in to Montana and set about establishing the rule of law and then making friends with the First Nation People and the signing of Treaty No. 7
This Diorama of Assistant Commissioner Macleod and Crowfoot the Blackfoot Chief.
This is a Red River Cart the Mounties brought 114 of these together with their Metis drivers creaking and squeaking all the way from Manitoba.
Tomorrow Friday we are going to Banff
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