According to today's Black Hills Travel Blog, the baby above is the first born calf of the 350 that are expected to be born this spring in Custer State Park. The 1,300 bison is one of the largest pubically-owned herds in the world.
The Badger Hole in the park is where South Dakota's first poet laureate, Charles Badger Clark, lived the last 30 years of his life. There he wrote poetry, read from his extensive library and wrote many letters. He died at 74 in 1957. My small graduating class of 13, Buffalo, SD, 1953, had the privilege of hearing him deliver our graduation address.
His lectures kept him alive but were unimportant to him other than the attendant social intercourse. Notwithstanding his own attitude, the influence his speeches, especially commencement addresses, had on the state's young people was inestimable. His message was often serious but tempered with his unflagging good humor, and always couched in common sense terms and logic. The Old West had taught him the values of self-reliance and the virtues of nature, and he passed this experience on to his eager young audiences.
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