-----Jesse James-----
Posted on 05/09/2002 9:04:36 AM PDT by floriduh voter
Kevin Costner foots the buffalo bill in a tribute to Lakota heritage
Focus: Some movie stars indulge in fleets of shiny sports cars. Kevin Costner opted for a herd of gigantic bronze bison. Flush from his Academy Award triumph for 1990's Dances with Wolves, Costner commissioned a massive sculpture, for about $2 million, depicting a Lakota buffalo hunt. He had hoped to display the 17 piece work (including one 17-ft-tall Lakota horseman helping drive a herd of fourteen 9-ft-high bison) on a planned $100 million resort to be built on the actor's 842 acre Deadwood, S. Dakota property. With plans for Dunbar resort (named for his Dances character, Lt. John Dunbar), now delayed, the buffalo have been roaming outside a Lander, Wyoming, foundry for the past few years.
Under contract to the artist, Peggy Detmers, to put the sculpture on public display by 2003, Costner, 47, is now mapping out a multi-million dollar venture on his Deadwood land, which includes an interpretive trail, visitor center and viewing terraces. "It's all Kevin's personal money," says Jim Fisher, the project's manager. "He's very fond of this area."
Just 45 minutes north of Mount Rushmore, the work will "stand as a separate tourist attraction," notes Jim Wilson, a historic-preservation officer for Deadwood, who says the tiny town (pop. 1,380) welcomes Costner's contribution to the area's cultural fabric. "It's not Mount Rushmore, says Detmers, "but it will be very impressive."
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Hopefully not for long.
Amen to that!!
;-)
You'd fit right in, vikingchick!
:-)
You ladies might like looking at the Costner pic ;-), but I'm really partial to #9 and #37...really, really nice photos...thank you so much for posting them!
I live on Turkey Ridge, and can see about 40 miles out across the Vermillion River Valley...at night the lights of Sioux Falls are just at the edge of the horizon...in the mornings, the valley is breathtakingly beautiful. Sunsets quite often look alot like that gorgeous shot you put up in #9 :-).
Since we live in the middle of a section, and a slough is just over the hill by an old abandoned farmstead, we have wildlife in abundance...Pheasants (they love the Conservation Reserve ground to the west), herons, pelicans (they love our slough, and Swan Lake just to our northeast), red-tailed hawks, ducks, geese by the tens of thousands during migration...and there are a ton of deer...one big old buck lives in the large grove by the abandoned farm.
Can you tell I love it here? :-)
Thank you for showcasing South Dakota...it is a wonderful place!
Regards...EV
I was just listening to a CD of Movie Adagios tonight, and one of my favorite pieces is the theme music of 'Dances with Wolves'!
We're going to go to S. Dakota during our trip to Yellowstone in late Summer. I want to see Mt. Rushmore. We'll go up to the 'Geographical center' of the US, and then go by Devil's Tower on the way to Western Wyoming!
Hey, sounds like a good screen name! :-)
My Mom's claim to fame is being a runner-up in the Miss South Dakota contest sometime in the 50s. Rock Hudson was the judge, and he picked some other SD girl instead of Mother.
What did he know anyway? :)
I have a correction though after talking to Mom yesterday. MY GREAT GRANDMA JOHNSON WAS NOT AT THE CLOTHESLINE WHEN THE JAMES GANG STOLE HER HORSES! She was PLOWING THE FIELD! The James Gang disconnected the plow horses and left Grandma standing there with a horseless plow. LOL You, Go, Great Grandma!
If she were alive today, she'd be a Republican because her husband, Magnus Johnson, was a BIG FUNDRAISER in S.D. They homesteaded outside of Garrettson.
Walking near creeks and through hills that you KNOW were the paths settlers took with their covered wagons just cannot be topped.
AND, I met Festus from Gunsmoke one time in Huron. LOL
They used to hang horse thieves in those days, didn't they? The James gang certainly desrved it -- leaving your great grandma in such a fix.
-----Jesse James-----
They used to sell a photo in the curio shops outside of Seattle when I lived there of pioneering women in Canada pulling a plow as a team. I can't remember if is was 2 or 3 women hitched up. The women were blond and looked like vikings!
Ain't that somethin'? I met him in Buffalo MANY years ago when he appeared at a department store.
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