SUNDANCE — Huge gouts of smoke rose over this tiny town that sits along a popular Sturgis Motorcycle Rally ride, the Devils Tower loop, as part of what’s become known to rally goers as Wyoming Wednesday.

While it looked very much like a five-alarm fire to passing motorists, there were no fire trucks headed to the scene, which was smack in front of a dive bar called the Dime Horseshoe Bar.

There was, however, plenty of noise. A hive of colorful Harleys snaked around the entire area, and a crowd of people wearing typical rally gear surrounded the smoky scene, cheering as loud as human vocal cords allow, some raising a beer or other beverage to toast the moment.

The cheers grew ever louder alongside the smoke, which was mushrooming to the sky as if a growing thing, somehow sprouting from a

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