Meade
Bear Butte
Junction of, SD
Mountain of Plains Indian, Cheyenne (Nowawaste) Sioux (Mato Paha) This 4,422 foot high volcanic bubble rises 1,200 feet above the plains,...
Bear Butte (Mato Paha) Indian Camp
This area, extending along Bear Butte Creek, was for centuries a select campsite of the Plains Indians, who found here mountain spring...
Black Hills and Ft. Pierre Railroad Narrow Gauge Railway
The B.H. & Ft. P. was the first railway of any sort in the Black Hills.
Camp J.G. Sturgis/Scooptown
Named for Lt. J.G. Sturgis, killed June 25 1876 at Battle of Little Big Horn.
Charles Nolin
1876 This youthful pony mail carrier on the Sidney-Deadwood Gold Trail was ambushed, killed, and scalped in what is now south Sturgis on...
Charles Nolin, Pony Mail Carrier
Sturgis, SD
Charles ‘Red’ Nolin, pony mail carrier on the Sydney-Deadwood trail, was ambushed, killed, and scalped here by Indians on August 19, 1876.
Civilian Conservation Corps Camp – Ft. Meade
Ft, SD
Camps D-Army-1 & SCS-6 (Fechner): 1/2 mile S on W edge of Ft. Meade D-Army-1 company:P 2758 7/20/34-10/31/35.
Converging Black Hills Gold Trails
During the days of the gold rush (1876-1886), through this gap, formed by Bear Butte creek, three major trails converged: The...
Custer’s 1874 Trail
George Armstrong Custer was, any way you look at it, a colorful character.
Death of the Bismarck Trail
On this spot, where the eroded ruts of the Bismarck-Deadwood Trail are still plain to see took place on July 17, 1877 the massacre of the...
Faith
Where Highways US 212 and SD 73 meet, at the end of the Cheyenne Branch of the Milwaukee Road, we live, a half mile above sea level, on...
It Started Here
One this parade ground in 1892 ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ got its impetus to become the national anthem.
Small Town – Badger Clark
By Badger Clark The circling cones of bison hide That made the village of the Sioux Rose near as high, spread near as wide, O little...
Trail Blazers
The trail blazers here on December 26, 1875 Ben Ash.