INDIAN TRAILS

INDIAN TRAILS

Indian Trails is what I call our 2 acres. It is 100% wooded hillside land with a great view of a 100 ft. fossil cliff, 1/4 mile away across the other side of the valley. There are 100 acres of woods that are sparsely populated. We are the only people around. Next summer a log-sided double-wide will go there. Now, Linda, My Brother Dave and I plus assorted friends, are shaping the land by landscaping it. There are trails that we made where there were none. I carved single animal totem posts to hold trail marker signs … there is a thunderbird, a bear and a raven. Plus an Indian Buffalo Woman, which is a 4 ft. Cut-Out figure which holds a lantern at a crossroad in the trails. I just finished a 7 ft. totem pole cut from a 6 X 6 in. beam. It has 3 Animals 1 1/2 ft. tall each … a top thunderbird, a middle beaver and a lower alligator. I also put in a solid cedar hanging basket planter in the woods holding a fern. All of the wood is solid cedar, except the sign posts which are 30 year treated deck wood. We also ordered a small log house kit 7 ft. X 5 ft. X 6 ft. tall. It’s 100% logs (like 4 in. size) including the roof. It has a wooden floor too. This will be for tools because it has wooden lockable windows and door. Plus we can go in it to keep warm with a camp heater this Fall. We also put in a cedar park bench with posts concreted into the ground. And a picnic grove. The valley name is Big Indian Valley. There is a Big Indian Creek that it is named after.
MICHAEL RODEN: letter to DLC dated 9/27/87

Bibliography:
For additional information and photos, see Roden clears new creative paths at his new Indian Trails, an interview (presumably conducted by KEVIN COLLIER) that was published in COMIXTALK Number 4 (page 3).

History:
This page was originally published in THE DALE LEE PLANET MICHAEL RODEN CATALOG: VOLUME 1: MINI-COMIX Version 1.0 (page 17) on 3-31-01.
Page revised and posted to the online MICHAEL RODEN CATALOG 10-3-03.