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F2 The Salt Lake Tribune TRAVEL Sunday September 6 1992 Grand Canyon inspires Circus Circus to bad Grand Slam Canyon The canyon also will feature two pools a water slide gondolas and a creek "We will present America's most dramatic and inventive playground at the best price" said William Bennett chairman of Circus Circus "Grand Slam will pack a lot of punch in a relatively compact space delivering a year-round water-park theme experience with the strongest thrill rides in the city" Estimated cost of Grand Slam is $75 million Architect is Veldon Simpson Green Valley Nev attraction designer is Arrow Dynamics Clearfield Utah Circus Circus Enterprises Inc operates seven properties in Nevada including the Excalibur Construction is under way on Luxor a 30-story pyramid next door to the Excalibur on the Las Vegas Strip slated to open in October 1993 LAS VEGAS Circus Circus Enterprises Inc announced immediate construction of Grand Slam Canyon a five-acre entertainment attraction at its Circus Circus property on the Las Vegas Strip The project will open in July 1993 Grand Slam Canyon will be a takeoff on the Grand Canyon in Arizona It will be situated at the west entrance of the main building at Circus Circus on a deck 14 feet above the existing parking area Included will be 140- foot peaks a 90-foot Havasupai Falls and a coursing river The entire park will be covered by a vented pink space-frame dome that will keep the attraction climate-controlled each and every day A four-loop roller coaster that will fly through the canyon a 50- foot waterfall and river rapids will be part of the Grand Slam Canyon experience for visitors ti 11 1 r- '111 11:11 i 1 Ir 4 fie 41( rirl'ilki 464 Ilk I )R4 Vr 4'''''' I r- 1 If t'14 1:1 0-1 1 Alt -ie fr --) i I I 11 'N-- ste 11' I- bite- i it 1 i I 11 plo''' 0- I dot It 'f'44 1- 1 4: i 1 0 I 4 a 11 1 I I I-' i II: 4 104 41 pea? 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Perhaps even that We had survived and thrived on the "wild" Missouri in an expanse seen only by a few fortunate visitors since Lewis and Clark's passage nearly two centuries earlier stored homesteader's cabin deprived of electricity and running water But it turned out to be a good introduction to the river trip We had to provide only sleeping bags and personal items while the outfitter provided the rest including a tent food water camp stove and utensils After a hearty breakfast we launched from Coal Banks Landing just east of Virgelle The all-night rain persevered for an hour and stopped We stripped our rain gear threw in a fishing line and began reading aloud from a waterproof log provided by the outfitter a log not only of Lewis and Clark's excursions up and down the river nearly two centuries ago but also of the mostly failed attempts by homesteaders and others to settle in this harsh territory in the 20th century The river passes through lofty sandstone cliffs the White Cliffs of the Missouri that transfixed Lewis and Clark in 1805 and 1806 and that continue to fascinate people today In 1976 the federal government designated this stretch of the "Mighty Mo" a part of America's Wild and Scenic River System but aside from a few abandoned homestead shacks and ranchers' fences and a couple of primitive campsites developed by the Montana Fish and Game Commission there are no signs of humans between Coal Banks Landing and the Judith Landing 48 miles to the east where we pulled in our canoe the third day As we drifted downstream we read the ex By Mike Bowler THE BALTIMORE SUN There were two goals One was well to borrow from the psychobabble of the 1980s and 1990s bonding: a 50-year-old father and a 24- year-old son from the city taking a three-day two-night canoe journey on the Missouri River in Montana It would be my territory I'd grown up beside the Missouri in Montana's capital city of Helena and my son's expertise he of numerous sailing and canoeing trips on the Chesapeake and Susquehanna and a sailboat journey from New England to the Bahamas The second goal was to follow the route of the great American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark through the remote White Cliffs of the Missouri in north-central Montana This is a Missouri most tourists and even most Montanans haven't seen It's the Missouri after it leaves the Rockies and turns east later to join the Yellowstone and the Mississippi For centuries it has been cutting a spectacular swath through the soft sandstone hard igneous rock and coal badlands of Montana creating a 50-mile wonder of natural formations virtually unknown south of the Montana-Wyoming border We had planned the trip fcr weeks and rived just after Memorial Day at Virgelle Mont population one headquarters of the Missouri River Canoe Co I wasn't impressed by the gentle but steady rain nor was I prepared for spending prelaunch night in a re Bozeman Trail wagon-train tours callry visitors back in time MI Continued from F-1 IF YOU Go To book your wagon seat contact American Wilderness Experience (AWE) PO Box 1486 Boulder Colo 80306-2992 1-800- 444-0099 later but was turned back by Red Cloud's warriors Thanks to three forts established along the route by the Federal Government subsequent emigrant trains got through The Trail continued to be so dangerous that trains were put together according to the number of rounds the men could fire in a minute In late 1866 a Lt Fetterman and his command of 94 men were killed by Red Cloud and Crazy Horse Two years later the government abandoned the forts and the Trail fell into disuse However the Black Hills Expedition led by a general named Custer crossed it in 1874 The Bozeman Trail's history lives on in the memories of such as Jim Colburn in traces still visible to the few who know where to look And in the imaginations of those who would crawl inside the skins of women men and children who braved the westward trail fitWastbeW tie from that of the emigrants whose wagon trains were once strung out across the plains like undulating snakes We could ride horseback behind the wagons ride a wagon walk or change back and forth Mornings are perfect for walking fresh as the dawn of the world out here on the prairie far from any habitation This is but a portion of the original Bozeman Trail To track it all would be well nigh unto impossible Much of it is on private property cut off by ranch fences Some slices through modern-day Sheridan and the Crow Indian Reservation near Billings Blazed in 1862 by John Bozeman over an old trapper's trail as a short-cut to the Montana gold fields the Trail began east of Wyoming's Big Horn Mountains and crossed the best hunting grounds of the Sioux Cheyenne Arapahoe and Crow tribes Bozeman attempted to lead the first train of emigrants over the Trail a year ETERSBURG but it was still not enough Today's ranchers graze thousands of acres But homesteaders came later after the Bozeman Trail had blazed its way into the history of westering America and the Indians whose birthright this land was relegated to reservations After 130 years traces of the trail remain If you know what to look for Jim Colburn does Honed by the lore of the West grandson of an old-time wagon freighter himself once a knockabout ranch hand and gold miner the trail is this mans passion Prompted by a dream to make the storied Bozeman Trail come alive for today's generation to honor those whose wagons creaked across it Jim got together three venerable covered wagons a chuck wagon a string of fine horses a tepee and some tents He hired a wrangler and some hands and Bozeman Trail Wagon Train Tours became a reality Real it surely is No rubber tires just heavy-duty springs No gourmet meals just good hearty grub Granted the soldiers and settlers who trekked the Bozeman Trail did not have our coolers stocked with pop and beer to look forward to at the end of a long hot day That concession to the 20th century aside the three-day three-night wagon train trip duplicates as much as possible the experiences of those long-dead trail blazers One family is so "into" the trek that they wear pioneer garb The fourth day is given over to rafting the Yellowstone River After three days without showers "accidental" dunkings are most welcome On the morning of the second day two women who expected cushier digs departed The rest of us assumed a routine differing lit Lowest Price Eyed Lowest Price Ever! 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