Lewis & Clark Trail
Ft Yates - Standing Rock ND

I headed north from Sacagawea and Sitting Bull monuments, near Mobridge. This was my first long drive on Hwy 1806 - the road marking the Corp's return. I needed to be on the west side of the river to visit Ft Yates on the North Dakota section of Standing Rock Sioux Indian Reservation. Here, you find another Sitting Bull grave, above. The body has been secretly dug up and reburied at the South Dakota site, and then back here, so many times that nobody really knows where Sitting Bull really rests. A controversial situation at best. An interpretative sign in Ft yates tells of L &C activities here. The photo, top right, gives a view of the camp location across the river.

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