Wisconsin, a state in the United States of America, commonly referred to as "God's Country", with many businesses throughout the state using some form of the nickname. Otter Tail County, Minnesota, a county in rural Minnesota containing over 1,000 lakes, commonly referred to locally as "God's Country".
I spent the first 18 years of my life in Otter Tail County, never heard it called God's Country. About as far from it as you can get in my humble opinion.
Trish and I returned to our definition of GC when we hit the Rocky Mountains and Glacier Nat'l Park a few days ago. GC for us means interesting terrain, sun, warm, dry - with darned few flies and skeeters. After 6 weeks of the flat, rainy, buggy, humid Midwest we were delighted to be back in our favorite part of the world.
This monument to Teddy Roosevelt welcomed us back to GC. It is on US highway 2 in Montana, at Marias Pass; highway 2 is known as the Roosevelt Highway. The bronze chap to the right of the obelisk is the guy that surveyed the area for the railroad.
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