Dinosaur Country

You're going to need a couple of two-ton friends on your hitching post if you're going to cut it out here, in Dinosaur Country.

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The Volcanic Tablelands near Bishop, California, are a vast, rugged landscape formed over 700,000 years ago by the Long Valley caldera. In this high desert environment, generations of Paiute and Shoshone Indians once resided, leaving behind an extensive collection of carefully chiseled petroglyphs in the rocks. Now a destination for rock climbers, these fragile treasures are protected by the Bureau of Land Management. Photo by Abhilash Itharaju (www.sharetheexperience.org).

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By request! XD

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Papo Dilophosaurus in Rovereto by Dark-Hyena

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The hand of an Iguanodon.

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Cactus StereoGIF. The Current Sea, 2015.

Shot @ Joshua Tree National Park with Kodak Ektar100 in Nimslo… @thecurrentseala ❤️ Analog Photography!

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Woon Young, on Tumblr

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Every Allosaurus should be able to eat from a stately bungalow. Another gem from Love in the time of Chasmosaurus blog.

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Noah Humphreys

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Kofa National Wildlife Refuge is the second largest wilderness area in #Arizona. A campaign by the Arizona Boy Scouts helped establish the refuge in 1939 to protect desert bighorn sheep and other wildlife. The refuge’s name – Kofa – comes from an acronym for one of the area’s most notable mines, the King of Arizona gold mine. Photo of mountains, palo verde & brittlebush by Brian Powell (www.sharetheexperience.org).

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Have you ever seen lightning make such crazy shapes? This bolt looks like a Tyrannosaurus rex getting ready to chomp a formation at Blue Mesa in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park. Monsoons usher in summer lightning, so explore safely and be sure to check the weather. Photo by Hallie Larsen, National Park Service.

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The Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a rolling landscape of badlands in New Mexico, which offers some of the most unusual scenery found in the Southwest. Time, water and wind have etched a fantasy world of strange rock formations made of layered sandstone, shale, mudstone, coal and silt. The weathering of the sandstone forms hoodoos – carved rock in the form of pinnacles, spires, cap rocks and other unusual forms like these “cracked eggs” recently captured by photographer Matt Beckmann under a purple sunset. Photo courtesy of Matt Beckmann.

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[In Stagecoach] Ford introduces Wayne with a highly uncharacteristic visual flourish: the camera darts toward Wayne in a rapid dolly shot, as the actor, standing in front of what appears to be a projected background, twirls his rifle in a grand, theatrical gesture. The shot briefly goes out of focus as Ford’s cinematographer, Bert Glennon, struggles to keep up with the change in scale — an effect that may have been accidental, but which grants Wayne an almost supernatural aura, as his face emerges from the blur to fill the screen in a dominating close-up. This is mythmaking, pure and simple  - Dave Kehr

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Oregon Trail (Campfire), Albert Bierstadt, 1863

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Colorado River from Route 128 near Castle Valley, UT February 2016

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7 Cowgirls Who Ruled the Frontier

In the 1922 book “The Cowboy: His Characteristics, His Equipment,” author Philip Ashton Rollins claims women weren’t an important factor in the West because there were so few of them. Despite the existence of Calamity Jane or Cattle Kate, Rollins wrote that “ranchwomen’s” influence was pretty much limited to their households.

He never met these seven extraordinary women…

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