Between the Badlands and the Black Hills

For more than 200 years, trappers, cowboys, Indian tribes, stage coaches, wagon trains and pony express riders passed through this region. We've followed their trails to capture some of the beauty of this sparsely populated area.

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Cattle to Little Missouri River

About 20 miles south of the ND/SD border, at Camp Crook, SD, cattle do what cattle have done right here for 150 years: grazed and drank along the Little Missouri River.

Cattle drives moved along the Little Missouri about this time of year as far back as 1865.

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