South Dakota brings to mind Mount Rushmore, long rivers, mountains and seasonal changes.
Now some of the life in South Dakota will be brought to televisions screens with the new series "Deadwood".
Kayak down the Missouri River, following the same trail that Lewis and Clark did all those years ago when nature was raw, and the present became history.
Not more than 15 minutes from Mount Rushmore is Crazy Horse
Memorial, carved in 1939, as a testiment to the American Indians.
Named Paha Sapa by the Lakota Sioux, this 1.2 million acre expanse
known as the Black Hills offers multiple activities such as
hiking, biking and camping. With deep canyons, cascading trout
streams, mountain medows, clear, clean lakes and towering granite
peaks, surrounded by thick forst of spruce and pine trees which cover
the slopes, from a distance making them look black, thus giving on of
the oldest mountains it's name.
Jewel Cave is within the Black Hills and is the 3rd largest cave in the world,
with nearly 130 mils of passages.
If caves are of interest, Wind Cave is also in South Dakota and is one of
the worlds longest caves.
In southwestern South Dakota lay the badlands, with eroded buttes,
pinnacles and spires, surrounded by grass prairie, this area remains protected so that it can remain a national treasure.
South Dakaota is rich the history of an Indian Nation to the gold rush in the black hills in days where Deadwood was the place to be, as long as you stayed out of the way of people such as Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. |
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