Hooper Shrine

We saw this shrine while driving near Hooper, Colorado. It's a memorial to Travis Wayne Anderson. A small family home is just about 100 feet to the east. At the shrine are boots, cans of Bud Light, a bullet, knife, CAT baseball cap, a Copenhagen chewing tobacco lid hidden in the mortar of the base, a sculpture or metal cast of helmet and gun. There is vast land and sky all around and the spot is frequently visited by all evidence, engendering a vast feeling of loss. It was hard to watch my son trying to understand it while I tried to comprehend the feelings of Travis' mother.