Coming Attraction: The Dakotas

It’s a tradition that we finish our western swing with a visit to the Dakotas and their bountiful wildlife. This year is no different. We’ll be among the incredible animals and landscapes and sweeping skies of the Great Plains for six nights, consisting of three unique stops. 

If you know anything about us, you’ll know our affinity for bison. But we also adore wild donkeys, pronghorns, big horse sheep, wild mustangs, mockingbirds, ravens, and prairie dogs. It’s easy to see why his years in the Badlands shaped a young Theodore Roosevelt as he struggled to find himself after the death of his first wife and his mother on Valentine’s Day, on two separate floors of their New York house. 

It’s not a coincidence that Theodore (he hated being called Teddy) is one of the reasons we adore this strange landscape and find his ghost everywhere. I’ve been spending a great deal of time revisiting his works as a conservationist, a hunter turned into a man who wished to preserve animals, and one of the …