The Road Starts To Wind Upward This Surprises the Narrator.
…."The road through the canyon doesn’t straighten out into more of what we’ve been through, as I expected it would, but starts to wind upward. Surprise.“

About four miles West of Locate, MT. For 40 miles, since soon after Baker MT, the highway has been running essentially West. The Narrator expects to continue this as they head towards the Major Mountain Ridge ahead. But as he accurately reports, at the start of the climb this road does abruptly curves some 45 degrees to the Southwest, to follow a side canyon upward. After this the road curves back again to the West then several more major "meanders" as they reach the top. The Narrator is surprised by the turns of the highway. These are readily seen on a road map, and are also seen in the Photo /\ Above. /\

A SUDDEN ADDITIONAL AFTER THOUGHT =>
…. The Demise Of The Widely Dispersed, Small One Room Rural Country Stores, With Pumps For Kerosene and Later Gasoline. .
….Widely Dispersed, Small One Room Rural Country Stores were an adaption to the realities of the Days when we Walked, Rode Horse Back, or owned Horse & Buggy, … With the advent of the $ Affordable Modern Automobile (1930’s), which was a comfortable easy to drive longer distances, the demise of Small One Room Rural Country Stores, was inevitable. … People wanted the bigger stores, with their larger selection & higher quality merchandise, and lower prices, and didn’t mind driving the longer distance.
…. Thus where I (Henry Gurr) live in Aiken SC: We could see where the Small One Room Rural Country Stores, once were (At a cross-road at a RR Whistle Stop, or At a Rural Swimming Lake.), or A still remaining cross-road, boarded up, ivy-covered, rotting hulks, closed once and forever, long ago.
…. Similarly it was that the 1940’s => Bill’s Powder River Standard Oil Gas Station. (And With It, Locate, MT), became a “Thing-Of-The-Past”

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