Hey, everybody. I'm Matt. This is the 10-minute Bible Hour podcast. Do you ever go to Mount

Rushmore, Family Vacation or Travel or anything like that? The Black Hills of Western, South

Dakota bleed over into Eastern Wyoming and they're like the furthest east little extension

of the Rocky Mountains in the United States. And they're just beautiful. They don't have

all the ruggedness of the high Rockies in Colorado or Western Wyoming, which I also love. But

they're mountains that are like how a kid draws a mountain. Pine trees coming up and green grass

running right up to them, a great trout fishing. And my family is here. My mom's side is from

the little Black Hills region here in Western, South Dakota. My dad's side is from Eastern

Wyoming. And more recently, I guess you think of the Black Hills as being a South Dakota

phenomenon. But when you look at the old maps and you look at how people categorized or

thought of the Black Hills area, it encompassed a much larger area extending over toward

Guernsey where there's now Guernsey reservoir in Wyoming and Torrington, Wyoming and Devil's

Tower and all of this. It's a really unique geographic area. Well, whatever the case, when

you're talking with people about where you're from when you travel, it can be a little

bit tricky to nail it down depending on how far you are from home. So for me, being somebody who

is from Rapid City, South Dakota, which sits right up against the Black Hills where they rise up

and go up to higher altitude, I might tell someone from just down the road in Deadwood, South Dakota,

that I'm from Rapid City. But if I met somebody from Eastern South Dakota or Minnesota or Nebraska,

somebody who would be regionally familiar with the area, I might say I'm from the Black Hills.

And that would generally get it done. If I'm clear on the other end of the country in Florida or

even traveling overseas, I would just reference the thing that would be most well known about the

place where I live to help people identify that. So when I lived in Western Wyoming, I would say,

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