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The wide-open spaces of the Great Plains
roll away to infinity to either side of I-90 in SOUTH DAKOTA . Though the
land is more green and fertile east of the Missouri River, vast numbers of
high-season visitors speed straight on through to the spectacular
southwest, site of the Badlands and the adjacent Black Hills - two of the
most dramatic, mysterious and legend-impacted tracts of land in the US.
For whites, they encapsulate a wagonload of American notions about
heritage and the taming of the West. To Native Americans they are ancient,
spiritually resonant places.
Time and Hollywood have mythologized the larger-than-life personalities
for whom the Dakota Territory served as a stomping ground: Custer and
Crazy Horse battled here for supremacy over the plains, while Wild Bill
Hickok and Calamity Jane were denizens of the once-notorious Gold Rush
town of
Deadwood . On a more contemporary note, Kevin Costner's award-winning
Dances with Wolves (1990), shot in the state, boosted South Dakota's
tourism image, though Costner's own ambitious development plans for the
Black Hills have meant that he himself has fallen foul of the Sioux. |
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South Dakota
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Badlands National Park |
Homestake Gold Mine |
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Bear Country U.S.A. |
Jewel Cave National
Monument |
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Black Hills Mining Museum |
Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum |
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Black Hills Petrified Forest |
Mount Rushmore National Monument |
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Blackhills Playhouse |
Park Jefferson Speedway |
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Catfish Bay Water Ski Park |
Pettigrew Home And Museum |
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Crazy Horse Memorial |
Rushmore Cave |
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Custer State Park |
Sgt. Floyd Riverboat Museum |
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Dakota Prairie Museum |
Stage Barn Crystal Cave |
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Dakota Territorial Museum |
Terry Peak Ski Resort |
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Discovery Center Aquarium |
USS South Dakota Battleship |
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Falls Of The Big Sioux |
War Eagle Monument |
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Fighting Stallions Memorial |
Wind Cave National Park |
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Great Bear Ski Valley |
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Great Plains Zoo Museum |
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