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THE LIFE AND TURBULENT TIMES OF LEGENDARY JIM BRIDGER ROCKY MOUNTAIN TRAPPER, SCOUT, ENTREPRENEUR, MERCHANT, AND TELLER OF TALES By John L. Moore

ome Rocky Mountain trappers once joined a group of Blackfoot warriors to smoke the pipe of peace. This happened one day in 1832, somewhere in Wyoming or Montana, on a plain near an outcrop of large rocks. Someone lit the pipe, but something went wrong as the ceremony began. Jim Bridger, the leader of the trappers, approached the group on his horse, his rifle across his saddle. “The Blackfoot chief came forward to meet him,” historian Hiram Chittenden reports. “Through some apparent distrust Bridger cocked his rifle as if about to fire. The chief seized the barrel and pushed it downward so that its contents were discharged into the ground.” The gunshot triggered a fight–Chittenden described it as “a melee”–between Indians and trappers. Bridger himself survived, but only after he “received two arrow shots in the back, and the chief felled him to the earth with a blow from the gun, which he had wrenched from Bridger's hand,” Chittenden said. “The chief then leaped into Bridger's saddle, and the whole party made for the cover of the rocks.” After that, natives and trappers shot back and forth at each other for some time. This episode was just one of a multitude of colorful incidents in Jim Bridger’s life. By the time of his death in 1881, the

77-year-old Bridger had been a Rocky Mountain trapper, hunter, entrepreneur, Western explorer, guide, scout, and spinner of yarns.

“He has become such a legendary figure in the history of the American West that stories of his exploits and accomplishments are still being told.” Bridger was born in 1804, the same year that Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left St. Louis, headed west on their two-year trek to explore the Louisiana Purchase, an expedition that took them to the Pacific Ocean and back. He has become such a legendary figure in the history of the American West that stories of his exploits and accomplishments are still being told. Indeed, historians credit him with being the first white person to see the Great Salt Lake in present-day Utah as well as one of the first to travel throughout what has become Yellowstone National Park. “As a guide I do not think he had his equal upon the plains,” Major General Grenville M. Dodge once said. Bridger worked for Dodge twice during the 1860s–first as a scout when the general was fighting Indians, and later as a guide FEBRUARY/MARCH 2024 POCONO LIVING MAGAZINE© 7

> F ort Laramie in southern Wyoming, circa 1840. Painting by Alfred Jacob Miller.

when Dodge, then a civilian employee of the Union Pacific Railroad, was establishing the route across the West for the first transcontinental railroad. Bridger never learned to read or write. Even so, he had traveled so extensively that “the whole West was mapped out in his mind,” the general said. On one occasion, Bridger led Dodge’s men to the South Pass in the Wind River Mountains. The pass was “a natural depression in the divide of the continent, and it is through this depression that the Union Pacific Railroad was built.” The stories about Bridger also depict a man who was physically tough. Indeed, the point of the arrow shot into Bridger’s back by the Blackfoot warrior remained in his body for nearly three years. It stayed there until Bridger encountered Dr. Marcus Whitman at a trappers rendezvous on Green River in Wyoming in August 1835. “Dr. Whitman extracted the arrow,” Chittenden said. “The operation was a difficult one.” The arrowhead had struck a large bone, and bony material had grown around it. 8 POCONO LIVING MAGAZINE© FEBRUARY/MARCH 2024

Dr. Whitman allowed a number of Indians to watch the procedure. The natives “expressed great astonishment when it was extracted,” Chittenden said. Made of iron, the arrowhead was “about three inches long." Separating the man from the legend requires considerable research. Based on letters and documents written over a period of 50 years by people who knew Bridger, the following sketches depict events in the life of the man, not the legend.

1837: JIM BRIDGER AND THE NORTHERN LIGHTS One day in February 1837, Jim Bridger and his Rocky Mountain trappers set up camp on a snowy plain along the Yellowstone River in present-day Montana. It was a time when East Coast fashions clamored for beaver pelts as material for making fur hats for men. At mid-day, “Mr. Bridger, according to his usual custom, took his telescope and mounted a high bluff near the encampment to look out” over the plain below. Around 1 p.m. Bridger “returned,

appearing somewhat alarmed, and … said the great plain below was alive with” Indians. He told his men that the Indians “were coming across the hills to the timber about 10 miles below us,” one of his trappers, Osborne Russell, wrote in his diary for Feb. 22. The Indians outnumbered the trappers, but the 33-year-old Bridger ordered his men to fortify their camp, an area that Russell said was about 250 feet square. That works out to an area of roughly 15 feet long and 16 feet wide. Using logs and brush piled horizontally about six feet high, “all hands commenced to build a breast work around the camp,” Russell reported. The afternoon passed without any sign of the Indians. By nightfall, the fortification was completed. “At dark a double guard was mounted and all remained quiet,” Russell said. “but it was a bitter cold night. I mounted guard from 9 till 12 o'clock. The weather was clear, the stars shone with an unusual luster.” Coated with ice, “the trees cracked like pistols.”

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This display continued throughout Russell’s watch, “then gradually disappeared, and being relieved by the morning guard, I went to bed and slept soundly till sunrise.”

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intelligence that they were encamped about three miles below on the river, and there was a multitude of them on foot.” When the night of the 23rd passed without incident, the trappers started to think that “we should not have a fight after all our trouble,” Russell reported. But they soon abandoned this notion. About sunrise, Bridger's cook ventured outside the fort and gathered firewood to make breakfast. He didn’t see an Indian watching the camp from trees about 200 yards away. The warrior shot at the cook, but missed. Although the warrior “then scampered off without doing any damage,” the gunshot had alerted the trappers.

“‘The chief, who wore a white blanket, came forward a few steps and gave us the signal that he should not fight, but return to his village. They then turned and took a northwest course’ toward the Missouri River.” Bridger quickly sent a trapper to the top of the bluff as a lookout. An Indian hiding there raised his rifle to shoot. The trapper turned to run away, but it was too late. “The Indian shot, and the ball struck him in the heel as he made a 50-foot leap down the bluff and slid down the snow to the bottom,” Russell said. The trappers braced for an attack. Soon, “the word was passed that they (the Indians) were coming on the ice and presently they appeared, coming round a bend of the river in close columns within 400 yards. They then turned off to the right into the plain and called a halt. “The chief, who wore a white blanket, came forward a few steps and gave us the signal that he should not fight, but return to his village. They then turned and took a northwest course” toward the Missouri River. Puzzled at first, the trappers eventually concluded that the Indians “had started from their village with the determination of rubbing us from the face of the earth,” but had abandoned their plan when they saw “our strong fortification,” Russell said. The trappers also suspected that the Northern Lights had impressed them. “The Great Spirit had shown them that their side of the heavens was bloody, whilst ours was clear and serene.”

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After the Indians left the region, Bridger visited their camp. “We supposed, on examining their camp next day that their numbers must have been about eleven hundred,” Russell said. Bridger and his trappers remained at the Yellowstone camp until Feb. 28, when they began an eight-day trip to the Big Horn Mountains traveling through snow that Russell said ‘was six inches deep on an average.” In the Big Horns, they encountered herds of bison, and “began to slay and eat, but we slayed so much faster than we ate that our meat scaffolds groaned under the weight of fat buffalo meat. We remained here amusing ourselves with playing ball, hopping, wrestling, running foot races, etc., until the 14th of March.” Then the trappers moved on.

1843: BRIDGER BECOMES A MERCHANT As the 1830s ended, changing fashions in men’s clothing in the East caused a sharp decline in demand for Rocky Mountain beaver pelts. Also around this time, there was a marked increase in the number of Easterners traveling west in wagon trains. Recognizing these changes and sensing a business opportunity, Bridger established a trading post on the 2,000-mile-long Oregon Trail. Naming the post Fort Bridger, he selected a location along the Green River that was roughly midway between the trail’s starting point at Independence, Missouri, and its end at Fort Vancouver in Oregon.

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"I have established a small fort, with blacksmith shop and a supply of iron, in the road of the immigrants …, which promises fairly,” Bridger said in a December 1843 letter to a merchant in St. Louis. “In coming out here they are generally well supplied with money, but by the time they get here they are in need of all kinds of supplies, horses, provisions, smith-work, etc. They bring ready cash from the States, and should I receive the goods ordered will have considerable business in that way with them, and establish trade with the Indians in the neighborhood, who have a good number of beaver among them.” Bridger’s optimistic tone was unmistakable. “The fort is a beautiful location on the Black Fork of Green River, receiving fine, fresh water from the snow on the Uintah (Uinta Mountain) range.” A nearby stream was “alive with mountain trout. It passes the fort in several channels, each lined with trees, kept alive by the moisture of the soil." General Dodge described the post: “Bridger's fort occupied a space of perhaps two acres surrounded by a stockade. Timbers

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> M ap of the Oregon Trail. Fort Bridger, not shown, was located in southwestern Wyoming at the point where the trail crossed the Green River. It was 394 miles west of Fort Laramie, along the trail in southeastern Wyoming.

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were set in the ground and elevated eight or ten feet above the surface. Inside this stockade Bridger had his residence on one side, and his trading post in the corner directly across from it.” In designing the post, Bridger had been wary of would-be rustlers. “It had swinging gates in the center of the front, through which teams and cattle could be driven safe from Indians and renegade white thieves,” Dodge said. “He owned a large number of cattle, horses and mules, and his place was so situated that he enjoyed a large trade with the Mormons, gold hunters, mountaineers and Indians.”

1860: THE SCOUT AND THE NOVELIST Jim Bridger became a celebrity during the 1860s. Early in the decade, he befriended a novelist and short story writer named Ned Buntline. Buntline asked to hear Bridger’s stories, “and Bridger gave him enough adventures to keep him writing the balance of his life,” according to Dodge. “Bridger took a liking to Buntline, and took him across the plains with him on a scouting trip,” Dodge said. “After a while Buntline returned to the East, and not long afterwards the Jim Bridger stories commenced to be published. One of these was printed every week, and Bridger's companions used to save them up and read them to him. Buntline made Bridger famous, and carried him through more hairbreadth escapes than any man ever had.” Dodge, who knew Bridger well, said that some of the scout’s stories seemed so preposterous that people didn’t believe them. One such tale involved a mountain pass that Bridger said he had found high up in the Rockies along the Continental Divide during the 1830s. As it entered the pass, a stream separated into two smaller streams that flowed down opposite sides of the divide. One went to the Pacific Ocean, and the other to Atlantic Ocean. What’s more, fish coming up one stream could swim across the divide and go down the other side. “No one believed it until in later years it was discovered to be true,” Dodge said. According to the National Park Service, this pass is known as the Two Ocean Pass and is in Wyoming. “Two Ocean Pass is located in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Waters from the meadow at this pass divide to flow in opposite directions, toward the Gulf of Mexico and toward the Pacific Ocean.” Even Bridger’s fish story holds up. “The site is the immigration route of the cutthroat trout from the Snake River (Pacific drainage) to Yellowstone Lake of the Missouri River Drainage (Atlantic drainage),” the NPS says.

1862: BRIDGER IMPRESSES, ENTERTAINS A YOUNG SOLDIER August and September of 1862 found Bridger in southern Wyoming guiding U.S. cavalry troops from Fort Laramie on the Oregon Trail on a six-day trip to Fort Halleck along the Overland Trail. The travelers included a young lieutenant from Ohio, Caspar W. Collins.

“After a while Buntline returned to the East, and not long afterwards the Jim Bridger stories commenced to be published. One of these was printed every week, and Bridger’s companions used to save them up and read them to him. Buntline made Bridger famous, and carried him through more hairbreadth escapes than any man ever had.” Known to the troops as Major Bridger, the scout impressed Collins. “He knows more of the Rocky Mountains than any living man,” the soldier said in a letter to his mother. “He came to this country about forty years ago in command of a party of thirty or forty trappers, and some time after, with some others, he organized the Rocky Mountain Fur Company.” Bridger had clearly been entertaining the men with stories. “He is totally uneducated, but speaks English, Spanish, and French equally well, besides nearly a dozen Indian tongues, such as Snake, Bannock, Crow, Flathead, Nez Perce, Pen d’Orille, Ute and one or two others I cannot recollect,” Collins said. “He has been in many Indian battles and has several arrow wounds, besides being hit so as almost to break his neck.”

1865: BRIDGER SAW SMOKE THE GENERAL COULDN’T During the summer of 1865, Brigadier General P. E. Connor led a column of nearly 500 U.S. cavalry soldiers north across Wyoming, looking for Indians to subdue. Bridger was Connor’s guide. By late August, they had traveled approximately 250 miles since leaving Fort Laramie in southeastern Wyoming. One day, Captain H. E. Palmer of the 11th Kansas Cavalry and Bridger were far ahead of the main body of troops. “I was riding in the extreme advance in company with Major Bridger. We were 2,000 yards at least ahead of the general and FEBRUARY/MARCH 2024 POCONO LIVING MAGAZINE© 15

his staff. Our Pawnee scouts were on each flank and a little in advance. At that time there was no advance guard immediately in front,” Palmer said. “As the major and myself reached the top of the hill we voluntarily halted our steeds. I raised my field glass to my eyes and took in the grandest view that I had ever seen.” Alongside Palmer was “the old Major, sitting upon his horse with his eyes shaded with his hands.” As the captain admired the grand vista of distant mountains, “the major said, 'Do you see those … columns of smoke over yonder?’ ” Bridger referred to a low spot in a mountain at least 50 miles away. Palmer hadn’t seen any smoke. “I again raised my glasses to my eyes and took a long, earnest look, and for the life of me could not see any column of smoke, even with a strong field glass.” Meanwhile, “the major was looking without any artificial help.” When General Connor came up, “I called his attention to Major Bridger 's discovery,” Palmer said. “The general raised his field glass and scanned the horizon closely. After a long look, he remarked that there were no columns of smoke to be seen.” When the general said this, Bridger “quietly mounted his horse and rode on,” Palmer said. “I asked the general to look again as the major was very confident that he could see columns of smoke, which of course indicated an Indian village. The general made another examination and again asserted that there was no column of smoke.” When Palmer caught up with Bridger, “the old man was very indignant at our doubting his ability to out-see us, with the aid of field glass even.” As it turned out, Bridger had indeed seen smoke. Just to cover his flank, the general sent a detachment of soldiers under Captain Frank North “to scout the area if only to prove there weren’t any Indians there.” Connor told Palmer he did so because he didn’t want to give the scouts the “chance to claim that they had shown us an Indian village and we would not attack it.” “Just after sunset on August 27 two of the Pawnees who went out with Captain North … two days previous came into camp with the information that Captain North had discovered an Indian village." It was where Bridger had seen the smoke. Within two days Connor captured the village in what history remembers as the Battle of Tongue River. General Dodge 16 POCONO LIVING MAGAZINE© FEBRUARY/MARCH 2024

reported that Bridger took part in the battle. The state of Wyoming has designated the village location as the Connor Battlefield Historic Site. It was situated in a spot where the Tongue makes a large loop just south of present-day Ranchester. An historical marker at the site notes: “On this site during the early morning hours of August 29, 1865, General Patrick Edward Connor led over 200 troops on Chief Black Bear’s Arapaho Village. Connor had departed from Fort Laramie on July 30th with 184 wagons, a contingent of Pawnee scouts, nearly 500 cavalrymen and an aging Jim Bridger as guide.” As the cavalry attacked, “Connor was able to inflect serious damage on the Arapahos, but an aggressive counter-attack forced him to retreat.”

“On this site during the early morning hours of August 29, 1865, General Patrick Edward Connor led over 200 troops on Chief Black Bear’s Arapaho Village. Connor had departed from Fort Laramie on July 30th with 184 wagons, a contingent of Pawnee scouts, nearly 500 cavalrymen and an aging Jim Bridger as guide.” 1866: THE OLD SCOUT BECOMES ‘THE LAST OF THE FIRST’ Famous and legendary, Jim Bridger was nonetheless becoming something of a relic by the mid-1860s. When Margaret I. Carrington met Bridger in 1866, she regarded him as “the last of the first pioneers of the Rocky Mountains.” The circumstances under which Mrs. Carrington met Bridger were extraordinary. The wife of a U.S. Army wife, she was traveling as part of a military expedition that was building a string of forts along the Bozeman Trail in Wyoming. Her husband was Col. Henry B. Carrington of the 18th U.S. Infantry. Bridger was the expedition’s scout. Although he was only 62, she found Bridger to be an “old man, already somewhat bowed by age.” Her descriptions of him reveal she took a liking to him. “To us, he was invariably straightforward, truthful, and reliable.” One day in June, Margaret Carrington and another woman took

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a walk into a canyon through which the Platte River flowed. Escorted by two men, they amused themselves by looking for colorful stones and by firing a few pistol shots in order to listen to the echoes. Their escapade caught the old scout’s attention. As Mrs. Carrington said later, “Old Major Bridger, in his peculiarly quaint and sensible way, dropped the sentiment: ‘Better not go fur. There is Injuns enough lying under wolf skins, or skulking on them cliffs, I warrant! They follow ye always. They've seen ye, every day, and when ye don't see any of 'em about, is just the time to look out for their devilment.’”

“Bridger married three times, each time to a Native American woman. The first wife belonged to the Flathead tribe; the second was a Ute Indian; and the third was a member of the Snake tribe.” Colonel Carrington constructed Fort Phil Kearny near presentday Buffalo, Wyoming. Margaret Carrington lived there with her husband, and Bridger stayed on as the colonel’s guide. She got to know Bridger well enough to report that “he cannot read, but enjoys reading. He was charmed by Shakespeare.” She explained that people would often read to Bridger. “He sent for a good copy of Shakespeare's plays, and would hear them read until midnight with unfeigned pleasure. The murder of the two princes in the tower startled him to indignation. He desired it to be read a second and a third time. Upon positive conviction that the text was properly read to him, he burned the whole set.” He declared that "Shakespeare must have had a bad heart and been as … mean as a Sioux to have written such” a play, Margaret Carrington said.

1874: FAILING EYESIGHT HASTENS HIS RETIREMENT Bridger married three times, each time to a Native American woman. The first wife belonged to the Flathead tribe; the second was a Ute Indian; and the third was a member of the Snake tribe. Each woman died at a relatively young age. Their deaths left Bridger with five young children. He was 45 when Virginia, the child of his second wife, was born in 1849. She was in her early 20s and living on Bridger’s farm near St. Louis when in 1871, he moved back to the farm, which

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> R eplica of stockade wall at Fort Phil Kearny State Historic Site in northern Wyoming. Jim Bridger was a guide for the U.S. Army force that built the fort. Photo by John L. Moore

General Dodge said had 160 acres and “a long, two-story (farm) house … with big chimneys at each end.” Jim Bridger lived with Virginia for the rest of his life. "In 1873 Father's health began to fail him, and his eyes were very bad, so that he could not see good, and the only way that Father could distinguish any person was by the sound of their voices,” Virginia said in a letter to Dodge years later. By the time he turned 70 in 1874, his sight was failing rapidly, but he refused to stay indoors. "I got Father a good old gentle horse, so that he could ride around and to have something to pass away time, so one day he named his old horse Ruff. We also had a dog that went with Father. He named this old, faithful dog Sultan.” There is terrible irony in Virginia’s disclosure that the legendary scout sometimes got lost in his own neighborhood. As she told General Dodge: “Sometimes Father would call me and say, 'I wish you would go and saddle old Ruff for me. I feel like riding around the farm,’ and the faithful old dog would go along.”

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Although the elderly Bridger couldn’t see very well, the horse would guide him along. Sometimes, however, they got lost in the woods. When this happened, Sultan “would come home and let us know that Father was lost. The dog would bark and whine until I would go out and look for him, and lead him and the old horse home on the main road.” Epilogue Jim Bridger was 77 years old when he died in July 1881. He was buried on his farm. In 1904, General Dodge arranged for Bridger’s remains to be moved from the farm and reinterred in a St. Louis cemetery. His portrait appears on a graveside monument there. Dodge also wrote a biographical sketch of Bridger. It provides personal details of the old scout, whom Dodge characterized as “a very companionable man. “In person he was over six feet tall, spare, straight as an arrow, agile, rawboned and of powerful frame, eyes gray, hair

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brown and abundant even in old age, expression mild and manners agreeable. “He was hospitable and generous, and was always trusted and respected. He possessed in a high degree the confidence of the Indians. He was one of the most noted hunters and trappers on the plains.”

PoconoFourWheelDrive.com John L. Moore continues to pursue his lifelong interests in Pennsylvania’s colonial history and archaeology. The Northumberland writer has published 11 non-fiction books about Pennsylvania’s 16th and 17th century. John’s latest book, 1780: Year of Revenge, is currently available in book stores or from the online bookstore Sunbury Press Inc. This book is the 3rd volume in his Revolutionary Pennsylvania Series and tells the story of Indian raids all across the Pennsylvania Frontier — including the Poconos and Minisinks — in the year following General Sullivan’s 1779 invasion of the Iroquios homeland. Over the years John has participated in archaeological excavations of Native American sites along the Delaware and Susquehanna Rivers. A professional storyteller, he recently took part in the Heritage Festival at Frances Slocum State Park near Wilkes-Barre. He told the true story of Frances Slocum, a 5-year-old girl who lived as a Native American after being kidnapped by Indians during the American Revolution. The park was named for her.

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TIME TO CONSIDER A BEDROOM DIVORCE?

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By Roseanne Bottone

e’re talking divorce for Valentine’s Day? Not that kind of divorce — not the end of a marriage or committed relationship. No! A bedroom divorce refers to calling it quits on sleeping together. What? That doesn’t sound like romantic advice for the holiday either. In this case, “sleeping” really means sleeping – it’s not a euphemism for nooky.

“What if your New Year resolution is to get more sleep and 9 pm is your goal for bedtime? Your SO likes to call it a night later and disturbs you just as you’re getting into your blissful REM cycle.” How long have you and your significant other (“SO” from here on in) been at war in the bedroom? I’m talking about playing the all-night game of tug-of-war with the blankets or stealing the pillows from one another. Or the “temperature wars;” He wants it warm and toasty and you want it icebox chilly because you’re melting from hot flashes. Then there’s the snoring and startling snorting (guilty!) The whirring of the C-PAP machine isn’t your idea of soothing white noise? What if your New Year resolution is to get more sleep and 9 pm is your goal for bedtime? Your SO likes to call it a night later and disturbs you just as you’re getting into your blissful REM cycle. Are masks and earplugs an inconvenience so your SO can watch TV in bed? You like to read to unwind and the SO needs black out conditions? What’s a partner to do? Laura and Rob (from “The Dick Van Dyke Show”) and Lucy and Desi (“I Love Lucy”) slept in separate beds. It was a morality must for network TV at the time. Today we say, “Aww. So quaint.” But maybe they were onto something.

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GREAT ROAD TRIP APPS By Tanni Haas, Ph.D.

arch 3 is World Wildlife Day, a great occasion for a good, old-fashioned family road trip. Whether you’re planning a short or a long trip, there are many apps that can help make your quality time with the kids as enjoyable, affordable, and stressfree as possible. Here are some of the very best road trip apps available. They’re all free so take a moment and download an app – or three!

RECREATION.GOV (Available at: Apple App Store) Road trips can be expensive with the price of gas going up seemingly every other day. One way to lower the cost is to stay at campgrounds instead of at hotels or motels. Recreation.gov is a one-stop source of information about campgrounds all across the country. You can search by location, price, and amenities, and make your reservation straight from the app. It has lots of photos and maps so you know exactly what to expect when you arrive. It also has information about local attractions and activities to keep your family entertained.

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(Available at: Apple App Store) Another way to save money on accommodation is to stay at local hostels. (This assumes, of course, that you can find a convenient place to park the car nearby.) Hostelworld is the most comprehensive hostel app available, with information about more than 16,000 hostels all across the world. You can search by location, price, room type, and facilities. Once you book a reservation, the app lets you see who’ll be staying at the hostel when you’re there as well as to connect with and chat with those fellow travelers. You can also access user-submitted reviews and photos and see listings of local activities, events, and sites.

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Even if you decide to stay on campgrounds on in a hostel, it’s nice to once in a while treat yourself and the family to a comfortable hotel room. If you’re the spontaneous type, HotelTonight is just the right app for you – and can save you a lot of money in the process. This app lets you search nearby hotels (wherever you are) and find the best last-minute deals. It includes reviews, ratings, and photos from other travelers so you know exactly what to expect.

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On a road trip, you don’t just need convenient and inexpensive places to sleep: you also need lots of gas. GasBuddy helps you find the cheapest gas at the nearest gas station. You can search in advance or as you’re driving. The app has a gas estimator, which calculates how much gas you need based on the car you’re driving and the distance you’re traveling.

TURO (Available at: Apple App Store) If you don’t like feel like driving your own car and you rather want to rent one instead, consider downloading Turo. This app offers a great alternative to getting a car from one of the many wellknown car rental companies. Much like Airbnb for accommodation, this is a peer-to-peer car rental app, which lets you rent cars directly from other car owners. You can expect to pay about 35% less than if you rented a car from a commercial rental company.

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PLUGSHARE (Available at: Apple App Store) If you happen to drive an electric car, it’s important to know where the nearest public charging station can be found. Step one: download PlugShare. This app has the most comprehensive map of charging stations across North America. You can search by connector type, charging speed, current availability, as well as by whether there are amenities like food or restrooms nearby. The app has charging station reviews and photos submitted by other users. It even has a built-in electric vehicle trip planner so you can locate all the charging stations along your route.

BESTPARKING (Available at: Apple App Store) You might be looking for a convenient parking spot near a hostel or some other place along the route, but whatever the case, parking spots can be expensive and hard to find. BestParking can help you find the right spot wherever you are. Indicate where you’d like to park and for how long, and the app will generate a 44 POCONO LIVING MAGAZINE© FEBRUARY/MARCH 2024

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5 WAYS TO SAVE MONEY ON AIR TRAVEL By Tanni Haas, Ph.D.

f your vacation plans involve traveling by air, it can easily end up being very expensive. Besides comparing prices on sites like Expedia, Priceline, and Travelocity, there are things you can do to save money on air fare. Based on my own experiences as well as conversations with other parents, I’ve pulled together a list of some favorite money-saving tips.

BE FLEXIBLE If you’re flexible about your departure and return dates, you can save a lot of money. Flights are generally less expensive during the week than on weekends. Consider taking the kids out of school a day or two before the school vacation starts, if that helps you find a lower air fare, since not much happens on the last days before the break.

BOOK EARLY, LAST MINUTE, AND SIGN UP FOR DEALS You can also save money by reserving your tickets months in advance; the ideal is 2-3 months before your departure date. Grab last-minute bargains, or sign up for deals that include air fare, hotel and/or car rental.

PACK CARRY-ON LUGGAGE Airlines can charge a steep fee for each extra suit case you bring on board (typically $50-75), and they generally only allow one suitcase per passenger. To avoid those extra fees, have each family member over the age of 8 bring a carry-on bag (bags are too difficult to maneuver for younger kids). That’ll also make the kids think carefully about what to carry on the trip.

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like movies and games. But that’s not always the case on domestic flights. To avoid spending money on entertainment, have the kids load their favorite movies and games on cell phones and/or tablets. The same goes for snacks; kids get hungry and on-board snacks can be very expensive, so bring their favorites with you.

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“A visit to a trained veterinarian is one of the best resources for getting recommendations and advice specific to your pet’s diet, conditions and needs.” MAKE DOG FOOD MORE APPEALING If your vet has confirmed your dog is healthy and there are no significant reasons why he or she is being picky at mealtimes, it may be time to try to improve his or her relationship with food. If your dog is just uninterested in food, try adding toppers like chopped carrots or bone broth or warming up wet food in a microwave-safe bowl to release the flavorful aromas.

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You may also consider adding an appealing ingredient like tripe. Palatable to even the pickiest of dogs, green tripe is frequently given to help working dogs, competition dogs and other dogs who may be experiencing digestive upset due to stress or excitement to encourage them to eat. Beyond being an excellent source of protein and omega fatty acid, green tripe has multiple nutritional benefits and contains vitamins, minerals and antioxidants. To help entice picky eaters with decreased appetites, Solid Gold included this standout ingredient in its Green Cow Green Beef Tripe recipe, now with nutrientboost, a proprietary blend of superfoods, amino acids and plasma to support nutrient absorption as well as digestive and immune health. Whenever you make a change in your pet’s diet, remember to do so gradually, as introducing a new food too abruptly can create stomach issues.

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digestion as human food can be too rich and fatty or contain too much sodium to properly digest. While it may seem harmless to give your dog a bite or two here and there, these kinds of table scraps can quickly throw off his or her nutrition and do more harm than good.

MAKE DINNERTIME FUN Helping your dog overcome picky eating habits can start in your own kitchen. In fact, it’s likely you know your pet’s preferences best. Whether you opt to create a homecooked meal or add nutrient-rich food toppers, there are multiple ways to easily encourage him or her to eat. A picky eater often plays with his or her food instead of eating it, so a feeding toy or bowl that makes it fun and time consuming can also get your dog to be more excited about the food. Additionally, rotating the types of foods, flavors and other ingredients you add to meals can incorporate variety and encourage your picky eater to chow down.

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