Typical rural county museum displays.

This was Shoshoni county before the settlers came.

How different Liberal is today compared to what it was in 1881. It was when the railroad meant life or death to towns.

Many memories of things in my life in this photo.

Oh, to be a kid again and walk the creeks that were on the three sides of the property the house I grew up in were bordered by. Today because of strip mining the coal in the adjacent properties, they are all dry, so no erosion, no artifacts appearing.

Dorothy and Toto. The Wizard of Oz exemplifies the term classic, whether the book or the movie. A visit to Dorothy’s House and a trip through the Land of Oz takes us back to our childhood.

One glance at the shoes and you know whose bedroom this is.

As a country kid I never had roller skates, but tin can and rope stilts, you bet I did. (Grapefruit juice and tomato juice cans made you really tall.)

The Wizard himself. Sorry, no photos of the scarecrow, tinman or lion as I was too interested in what Dorothy was saying at the time. Gosh, I never even took a photo of Dorothy. It was great being a kid again.

The actual model of the house used in the movie to show it whirling through the air in the tornado.

You’re never too old to be a kid again.

It sure was! And this marker was just down the street from the RV park we were staying at in Fort Pierre, South Dakota.