With Cattle Rancher Ed Rhoades of South Dakota donating for the President's special use two miles of Squaw Creek (which runs through the Rhoades ranch and abounds with Lochlaven trout); with telephone linemen stringing wires from Custer Park to Rapid City; with Washington wondering who will accompany the President on his vacation trip (Mr. & Mrs. Frank Stearns of Boston, being mentioned as possible traveling companions); preparations for the Black Hills journey were well under way.
Meanwhile the Black Hills themselves, suddenly become an extraordinarily famed region, were described in Sunday newspaper...