The Badlands

The Badlands

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September 8th 2011
Today we had a trip out to the Badlands National Park (we decided not to spend hours driving right through South Dakota due to the vast areas of praries and Abi’s wise words!). We travelled down to Wall and visited the Minuteman nuclear missle launching base thing on the way – you could look down into the silo and still see the practise missile, a tad disconcerting but getting in through the ... read more

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more