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	Troy Parker looking east towards the Lodge, from the first tee, above the future site of Cabin Two.
	The Black Hills Country Club He never did find the Green Front, for that wasn't his kind of entertainment anyway, but he loved the Black Hills ever after, so when about 1925 John Bland, an inventor and mining engineer and promoter in general, (and son of Silver Dick Bland--Dad said he was the son of somebody and that is who I expect it was), drummed up a project to create a country club, golf course, and summer home group of Chicago people out in the Black Hills, Dad joined in with wild enthusiasm. Dad's brothers Norman and Leslie joined in, and a couple of childhood friends, and a business associate or two, and a couple more mining engineers, and this syndicate (2) bought five miles of beautiful, winding Palmer Gulch (3), made my father president of the whole corporation, and set Bland to work to build a golf course and some summer cabins.
	The view from the parking lot, with the fifth fairway below Elkhorn Mountain. The fairway was cut out of the forest.
	The Great Crash of 1929, however, seriously interfered with the various partners' full and complete enjoyment of their investment, and caused them to lose faith in its original management and one day, when Dad saw Bland driving down the center of the golf course after a heavy rain, leaving ruts a half mile long behind him, the organization severed its connection with its promoter, and the burdens of its management fell in full force upon my father.
	View of the ninth fairway, near Discovery Cabin.
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