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Custer State Park, South Dakota, Jeep Tour

• CATEGORIES: Features • TAGS: This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Looking for a unique way to see the Buffalo herds near Custer State Park (map)? You might look into a Jeep Tour. Here are pics showing a Wagoneer and a later model jeep built to hold a small group. Here are some links that might be helpful. It’s not clear to me if there is only one tour operator or multiple ones.

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Heap of the Week article from Walla Walla

• CATEGORIES: Features, Old News Articles, Women & Jeeps This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

I stumbled upon a website that celebrates old articles from the town of Walla Walla, Washington, just forty-five minutes east of me. At some point the local newspaper ran a series of articles titled “Heap of the Week”. However, one week they changed the title to “Jeep of the Week”.

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1946 Photo from Mount Cooldidge

• CATEGORIES: CJ-2A, Features, Fire/Police/Industry Vehicles, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This old photo from the South Dakota Department of Agriculture shows a CJ-2A with a 100 gallon tank mounted in the rear at or near Custer State Park. It appears there may be another tank across the cowl. Unfortunately, the photo isn’t very large.

http://sdda.sd.gov/wildland-fire/suppression/field-offices/mount-coolidge-fire-lookout-tower/

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1949 Still from the Walking Hills Movie on eBay

• CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

That’s quite the hokey horse trailer.

“The Walking Hills ’49 WILLIAM BISHOP JEEP HORSE TRAILER RARE

This vintage original still shows a VERY RARE WESTERN photo of WILLIAM BISHOP (center) leaning on the back of a JEEP which has a HORSE TRAILER behind it.

Moviephoto from the movie: The Walking Hills
Year of the photo: 1949
Size of the photo: Approximately 8 x 10

Other members of the cast (not necessarily in the movie still):
Charles Stevens Randolph Scott William Bishop Edgar Buchanan Arthur Kennedy John Ireland Jerome Courtland Josh White”

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1944 Jeeps A Dog for Defense Book **SOLD**

• CATEGORIES: Books, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.

I doubt there are many jeeps in this book, but it’s an unusual bit of WWII memorabilia.

“RARE 1ST EDITION 1944 “JEEPS – A DOG FOR DEFENSE” BY SYLVESTRE C. WATKINS
IN EXCELLENT, VINTAGE CONDITION (AS SHOWN). DUST JACKET HAS SOME SHELF WEAR ON TOP.
INTERIOR IN EXCELLENT CONDITION.
WILCOX & FOLLETT CO, CHICAGO. 1944.
*OFFERS WELCOME*
BID WITH CONFIDENCE. EMAIL ME FOR DETAILED PHOTOS”

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1975 Chuck Wagon Toy on eBay

• CATEGORIES: Features, toys This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Interesting little toy, but somehow the shipping costs one and a half times the cost of the jeep??? Why pay for expedited shipping?

“HERE IS AN AWESOME 1975 CHUCK WAGON JEEP IN SUPER CONDITION IT IS 100% COMPLETE ALL PIECES ARE IN EXCELLENT SHAPE THE STICKER DECALS WERE ALREADY PLACED ON THE TOYS THE BOX IS IMMACULATE AND THE TRUCK SWEET NEEDS A BIT OF DUSTING OFF AND 1 HEADLIGHT DECAL IS LIFTING A BIT PERFECT SIZE FOR USING WITH BIG JIM, G.I. JOE, ETC”

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