The Black Hills (Ȟe Sápa in Lakota, Moʼȯhta-voʼhonáaeva in Cheyenne, awaxaawi shiibisha in Hidatsa) are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States.Harney Peak, which rises to 7,244 feet (2,208m), is the range's highest summit. The Black Hills encompass the Black Hills National Forest. The name "Black Hills" is a translation of the LakotaPahá Sápa. The hills were so-called because of their dark appearance from a distance, as they were covered in trees.
Native Americans have a long history in the Black Hills. After conquering the Cheyenne in 1776, the Lakota took over the territory of the Black Hills, which became central to their culture. In 1868, the U.S. government signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever. However, when European Americans discovered gold there in 1874, as a result of George Armstrong Custer's Black Hills Expedition, miners swept into the area in a gold rush. The US government reassigned the Lakota, against their wishes, to other reservations in western South Dakota. Unlike most of South Dakota, the Black Hills were settled by European Americans primarily from population centers to the west and south of the region, as miners flocked there from earlier gold boom locations in Colorado and Montana.
The mountain range is bordered by the Gila River, and the range is a large block that forces the Gila to flow northwest, west, southwest; at the west, the Gila River begins an excursion northwest at the start of the Gila Valley, where Safford and Thatcher lie in the valley.
The southwest quarter of the mountain range lies in the southeast of Graham County.
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The Black Hills are on the southern border of the Arizona transition zone, with the complete excursion of the Gila River and mountain range in the zone, and valleys to the south, in the Sonoran Desert.
The center south of the range starts the northern drainage into the small Whitlock Valley. The southeast of the Black Hills start the small hills at the north of a north-south stretch of the Peloncillo Mountains. The southwest of the range start the small hills associated with the northeast of the north-south small range of the Whitlock Mountains.
The Black Hills are a mountain range in Lake County, Oregon. They are located to the immediate south of the community of Christmas Valley; just off of Old Lake Highway.
The Black Hills Pioneer (first published as the Black Hills Weekly Pioneer) is a newspaper published in Spearfish, South Dakota. Founded by A. W. Merrick and W. A. Laughlin, it was the first newspaper in Deadwood, located in what was then Dakota Territory.
Merrick and the Black Hills Weekly Pioneer are portrayed in the HBO television series Deadwood.
The high school A.G. West Black Hills is named for the hills. So is Black Hills Community Hospital and the local soccer club the Blackhills Football Club.
The Black Hills of Yavapai County are a large mountain range of central Arizona in southeast Yavapai County. It is bordered by the Verde Valley to the east. The northwest section of the range is bisected from the southeast section by Interstate 17, which is the main route connecting Phoenix to Sedona, Oak Creek Canyon, and Flagstaff. This bisection point is the approximate center of the mostly northwest by southeast trending range. The northwest section contains a steep escarpment on the northeast with the Verde Valley, the escarpment being the location of the fault-block that created the historic mining district at Jerome.
The range is also the first major fault-blocked range west of the Mogollon Rim on the southwest margin of the Colorado Plateau in Arizona. The range is at the northwest-center of the Arizona transition zone which extends diagonally across central Arizona.
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The highest point of the Black Hills (Arizona) is Woodchute Mountain at 7,840 feet (2,390m).Mingus Mountain lies 4.0 miles (6.4km) south of Woodchute Mountain with historic Cherry8.7 miles (14.0km) further to the southeast.
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The Waitress
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published: 18 Apr 2019
The Black Hills Pioneer “If you only knew”
From the album ‘Vol1’ available on iTunes.
www.twitter.com/BlackHillsVol1
published: 28 Jan 2018
The Black Hills Pioneer “Move along”
www.twitter.com/BlackHillsVol1
published: 28 Jan 2018
The Black Hills Pioneer-'Get me back home'
Super duper gothic country rock track from my forthcoming album 'Vol1'.
published: 09 Aug 2017
Black Hills Pioneer “Lose your light” Drum cover
From the album ‘House’ by Black Hills Pioneer.
J.W.Honour all guitars, bass,drums,keys and backing vocals.
R.W.Amos lead vocals.
Written&produced by J.W.Honour 2020.
published: 29 Sep 2021
The Black Hills Pioneer “House” out now!
New album out now on iTunes,Amazon,Spotify!
published: 12 May 2020
The Prospector - The Wildest Ride in the Village [No Limits 2]
The Prospector: Simon Bamberger
Here is a tale about a sleepy little town named Rattlesnake Junction (Pioneer Village).
Rattlesnake Junction is a sleepy little pioneer village located on the confluence of the Rattlesnake River and Little Rattlesnake Creek was settled in 1847 by Mormon Pioneers looking for a peaceful life in the Rocky Mountains.
The village was a local economic powerhouse offering all the services the local population required. It had a village CO-OP, a pony express stop, a black smith, shoe repair, hardware store, carriage repair and the log flume direct fed lumber mill, only one like it in Utah.
By 1860, the local Lumber mill installed Utah’s first Log Flume to feed the supply of wood it required to fulfill orders. It was an extremely successful operation, that is u...
From the album ‘House’ by Black Hills Pioneer.
J.W.Honour all guitars, bass,drums,keys and backing vocals.
R.W.Amos lead vocals.
Written&produced by J.W.Honour...
From the album ‘House’ by Black Hills Pioneer.
J.W.Honour all guitars, bass,drums,keys and backing vocals.
R.W.Amos lead vocals.
Written&produced by J.W.Honour 2020.
From the album ‘House’ by Black Hills Pioneer.
J.W.Honour all guitars, bass,drums,keys and backing vocals.
R.W.Amos lead vocals.
Written&produced by J.W.Honour 2020.
The Prospector: Simon Bamberger
Here is a tale about a sleepy little town named Rattlesnake Junction (Pioneer Village).
Rattlesnake Junction is a sleepy litt...
The Prospector: Simon Bamberger
Here is a tale about a sleepy little town named Rattlesnake Junction (Pioneer Village).
Rattlesnake Junction is a sleepy little pioneer village located on the confluence of the Rattlesnake River and Little Rattlesnake Creek was settled in 1847 by Mormon Pioneers looking for a peaceful life in the Rocky Mountains.
The village was a local economic powerhouse offering all the services the local population required. It had a village CO-OP, a pony express stop, a black smith, shoe repair, hardware store, carriage repair and the log flume direct fed lumber mill, only one like it in Utah.
By 1860, the local Lumber mill installed Utah’s first Log Flume to feed the supply of wood it required to fulfill orders. It was an extremely successful operation, that is until the railroad came to town. The railroads brought in lumber at a much cheaper price and quickly put the Lumber Mill out of business and land was quickly put up for sale.
The Lumber Mill sat for many months abandoned and falling apart before a buyer bought up the lumber mill. Nobody in the community knew who the buyer was and had hopes that their beloved local lumber mill would be restored.
However, the buyer just happened to be the one who had contributed to the lumber mills going under Mr. Simon Bamberger himself, it was his railroad that came to Rattlesnake Junction. Simon had made his fortune from a silver mining operation in Central Utah a few years before and was now investing that fortune in the search for gold.
There had long been a story told around the village that there was gold in them hills and Simon wanted it. Gold deposits get eroded over time by rivers and creeks and as it does it washes down and will collect along current and former creek beds. Simon had been prospecting along the creek and found a good deposit where the Lumber Mill was, which is when he bought the property. He quickly demolished the lumber mill and built new buildings under the Bamberger Mining Co. name.
Simon was not satisfied with finding just small deposits, he wanted to find what miners refer to as the “Glory Hole” or the source of the gold deposits. In order to find it with much haste Simon is calling upon you to come try his new “gravity railroad” on a gold rush through the hills of Rattlesnake Junction looking for the“Glory Hole.”
Coming in 2025 to Lagoon Amusement Park, The Prospector, a brand new wooden roller coaster that winds its way through the hills of Pioneer Village in the search of the elusive “Glory Hole.”
Specs:
Height: 100 feet
Drop: 93 feet
Speed: 52 MPH
Length: 2,670 feet
# of Trains: 2 (24 passengers each)
PPH: 1,152 (Theoretical)
Airtime Moments: 10 totaling about 20 seconds
Ride time: 1 min 30 seconds
Features:
36 mph Station Fly Through with a train just 8 eight feet above the exit platform
Airtime filled Triple Down
Curving 70 degree first drop
Five cross overs
The Prospector: Simon Bamberger
Here is a tale about a sleepy little town named Rattlesnake Junction (Pioneer Village).
Rattlesnake Junction is a sleepy little pioneer village located on the confluence of the Rattlesnake River and Little Rattlesnake Creek was settled in 1847 by Mormon Pioneers looking for a peaceful life in the Rocky Mountains.
The village was a local economic powerhouse offering all the services the local population required. It had a village CO-OP, a pony express stop, a black smith, shoe repair, hardware store, carriage repair and the log flume direct fed lumber mill, only one like it in Utah.
By 1860, the local Lumber mill installed Utah’s first Log Flume to feed the supply of wood it required to fulfill orders. It was an extremely successful operation, that is until the railroad came to town. The railroads brought in lumber at a much cheaper price and quickly put the Lumber Mill out of business and land was quickly put up for sale.
The Lumber Mill sat for many months abandoned and falling apart before a buyer bought up the lumber mill. Nobody in the community knew who the buyer was and had hopes that their beloved local lumber mill would be restored.
However, the buyer just happened to be the one who had contributed to the lumber mills going under Mr. Simon Bamberger himself, it was his railroad that came to Rattlesnake Junction. Simon had made his fortune from a silver mining operation in Central Utah a few years before and was now investing that fortune in the search for gold.
There had long been a story told around the village that there was gold in them hills and Simon wanted it. Gold deposits get eroded over time by rivers and creeks and as it does it washes down and will collect along current and former creek beds. Simon had been prospecting along the creek and found a good deposit where the Lumber Mill was, which is when he bought the property. He quickly demolished the lumber mill and built new buildings under the Bamberger Mining Co. name.
Simon was not satisfied with finding just small deposits, he wanted to find what miners refer to as the “Glory Hole” or the source of the gold deposits. In order to find it with much haste Simon is calling upon you to come try his new “gravity railroad” on a gold rush through the hills of Rattlesnake Junction looking for the“Glory Hole.”
Coming in 2025 to Lagoon Amusement Park, The Prospector, a brand new wooden roller coaster that winds its way through the hills of Pioneer Village in the search of the elusive “Glory Hole.”
Specs:
Height: 100 feet
Drop: 93 feet
Speed: 52 MPH
Length: 2,670 feet
# of Trains: 2 (24 passengers each)
PPH: 1,152 (Theoretical)
Airtime Moments: 10 totaling about 20 seconds
Ride time: 1 min 30 seconds
Features:
36 mph Station Fly Through with a train just 8 eight feet above the exit platform
Airtime filled Triple Down
Curving 70 degree first drop
Five cross overs
From the album ‘House’ by Black Hills Pioneer.
J.W.Honour all guitars, bass,drums,keys and backing vocals.
R.W.Amos lead vocals.
Written&produced by J.W.Honour 2020.
The Prospector: Simon Bamberger
Here is a tale about a sleepy little town named Rattlesnake Junction (Pioneer Village).
Rattlesnake Junction is a sleepy little pioneer village located on the confluence of the Rattlesnake River and Little Rattlesnake Creek was settled in 1847 by Mormon Pioneers looking for a peaceful life in the Rocky Mountains.
The village was a local economic powerhouse offering all the services the local population required. It had a village CO-OP, a pony express stop, a black smith, shoe repair, hardware store, carriage repair and the log flume direct fed lumber mill, only one like it in Utah.
By 1860, the local Lumber mill installed Utah’s first Log Flume to feed the supply of wood it required to fulfill orders. It was an extremely successful operation, that is until the railroad came to town. The railroads brought in lumber at a much cheaper price and quickly put the Lumber Mill out of business and land was quickly put up for sale.
The Lumber Mill sat for many months abandoned and falling apart before a buyer bought up the lumber mill. Nobody in the community knew who the buyer was and had hopes that their beloved local lumber mill would be restored.
However, the buyer just happened to be the one who had contributed to the lumber mills going under Mr. Simon Bamberger himself, it was his railroad that came to Rattlesnake Junction. Simon had made his fortune from a silver mining operation in Central Utah a few years before and was now investing that fortune in the search for gold.
There had long been a story told around the village that there was gold in them hills and Simon wanted it. Gold deposits get eroded over time by rivers and creeks and as it does it washes down and will collect along current and former creek beds. Simon had been prospecting along the creek and found a good deposit where the Lumber Mill was, which is when he bought the property. He quickly demolished the lumber mill and built new buildings under the Bamberger Mining Co. name.
Simon was not satisfied with finding just small deposits, he wanted to find what miners refer to as the “Glory Hole” or the source of the gold deposits. In order to find it with much haste Simon is calling upon you to come try his new “gravity railroad” on a gold rush through the hills of Rattlesnake Junction looking for the“Glory Hole.”
Coming in 2025 to Lagoon Amusement Park, The Prospector, a brand new wooden roller coaster that winds its way through the hills of Pioneer Village in the search of the elusive “Glory Hole.”
Specs:
Height: 100 feet
Drop: 93 feet
Speed: 52 MPH
Length: 2,670 feet
# of Trains: 2 (24 passengers each)
PPH: 1,152 (Theoretical)
Airtime Moments: 10 totaling about 20 seconds
Ride time: 1 min 30 seconds
Features:
36 mph Station Fly Through with a train just 8 eight feet above the exit platform
Airtime filled Triple Down
Curving 70 degree first drop
Five cross overs
The Black Hills (Ȟe Sápa in Lakota, Moʼȯhta-voʼhonáaeva in Cheyenne, awaxaawi shiibisha in Hidatsa) are a small, isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States.Harney Peak, which rises to 7,244 feet (2,208m), is the range's highest summit. The Black Hills encompass the Black Hills National Forest. The name "Black Hills" is a translation of the LakotaPahá Sápa. The hills were so-called because of their dark appearance from a distance, as they were covered in trees.
Native Americans have a long history in the Black Hills. After conquering the Cheyenne in 1776, the Lakota took over the territory of the Black Hills, which became central to their culture. In 1868, the U.S. government signed the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868, exempting the Black Hills from all white settlement forever. However, when European Americans discovered gold there in 1874, as a result of George Armstrong Custer's Black Hills Expedition, miners swept into the area in a gold rush. The US government reassigned the Lakota, against their wishes, to other reservations in western South Dakota. Unlike most of South Dakota, the Black Hills were settled by European Americans primarily from population centers to the west and south of the region, as miners flocked there from earlier gold boom locations in Colorado and Montana.
Music: D.Gildenlow 'They tell all the people of Europe, it's a good, clean industry, it's a great way to save the world. But I'm here to tell you that now they're knocking on our door because they can't find any place to store the damned stuff for eternity, They come to our homeland and they want to lease some land for 10,000 years!' This was our home - we had our truth Bled for our creed - why must we still bleed? Your tailings are bound forever in this ground... So you come for our holy ground When your nature's gone and your house has burnt down For hundreds of years you've hurt this land Eating what's there, leaving a wasteland But there are no space to hold all your mistakes Still you come for our holy ground When your nature's gone and your houses are all burnt down [instrumental] [Hallgren] 'To this day, they will not return our sacred land, even though their highest hypocritical court said that we could and indeed did, own the
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