- Rapid City, SD to Mount Rushmore, SD
- Mount Rushmore, SD to Crazy Horse, SD
- Crazy Horse, SD to Hot Springs, SD
- Hot Springs, SD to Alliance, NE
Our first view of Mount Rushmore. I wonder how the Native Americans feel when they see this monument to the white leaders who broke every treaty ever agreed to with Native Americans, oppressed them without mercy, and made war against them. They probably don't much care for this monument.
Mount Rushmore, SD. What more can I say?
The mall with all the state flags as you head towards the monument.
The view looking east from Mount Rushmore onto the open prairie of South Dakota.
The Crazy Horse Monument. Crazy Horse led the battle against Custer, and won. Then the US Army assassinated him while under a flag of truce just a few years later.
This is a model of what the monument is intended to look like when completed. This memorial is being build solely with private funds, no government funding... and they want it that way.
There are not pictures of Crazy Horse but this is an estimation of what he looked like based on the "word pictures" from those who knew him.
We went through a little town called Hot Springs, SD. This is the original town jail from 1888.
Most of the town buildings are faced with stone from the aptly named Red Rock River.
After leaving the Black Hills headed south, we returned once again to the prairie, this time in Nebraska. This train went on for a long way.
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