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The Black Hills is an isolated mountain range rising from the Great Plains of North America in western South Dakota and extending into Wyoming, United States. [3] Black Elk Peak, which rises to 7,242 feet (2,207 m), is the range's highest summit. [4]
The following is a list of forts in South Dakota. Forts in South Dakota ... Indian Agency until 1878. Camp Bradley: Roberts: 1863: Fort Brule ... Black Hills Ghost ...
In 1876 the U.S. Congress decided to open up the Black Hills to development and break up the Great Sioux Reservation. In 1877, it passed an act to make 7.7 million acres (31,000 km 2) of the Black Hills available for sale to homesteaders and private interests. In 1889 Congress divided the remaining area of Great Sioux Reservation into five ...
The state can generally be divided into three geographic regions: eastern South Dakota, western South Dakota, and the Black Hills. Eastern South Dakota is lower in elevation and higher in precipitation than the western part of the state, and the Black Hills are a low, isolated mountain group in the southwestern corner of the state.
Rock art site; [5]: 379 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR 39CU515 #82004757: Rock art site; [5]: 379 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR 39CU516 #82004758: Rock art site; [5]: 379 Rock Art in the Southern Black Hills TR 39CU890 #93000803: Hermosa: Rock art site; [5]: 379 Prehistoric Rock Art of South Dakota MPS 39CU1619 #99000679
The trappers were camped near an Arikara village at the mouth of Grand River (north of present-day Mobridge, South Dakota). Fourteen trappers died and 10 were wounded, including Hugh Glass, memorialized in the 1954 biographical novel Lord Grizzly by Frederick Manfred, the 2002 historical fiction novel The Revenant: A Novel of Revenge by Michael ...
South Dakota's first and largest state park. Located in the southern Black Hills and known for the scenic Needles Highway, Sylvan Lake, and as a wildlife habitat with a famous herd of bison. [13] Farm Island Recreation Area: Recreation area Hughes: 1,800 730 1946
The Rosebud Indian Reservation is located in south central South Dakota. It includes within its recognized border all of Todd County , an unincorporated county of South Dakota. The Oyate also have communities and extensive lands and populations in the four adjacent counties, which were once within the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (RST) boundaries: Tripp ...