Lewis and Clark and the Legend of Stone Idol Creek
On their epic exploratory expedition Meriwether Lewis and William Clark stopped near here and noted two stones resembling human figures, and third like a dog. Capt. Clark writes on Oct. . . . — — Map (db m112085) HM
Old Pollock
In 1901 Pollock was founded as the end point of the Soo Line rail service from Wishek, ND. Soo Line officials requested the town be named Pollock in honor of R.Y. Pollock, a pioneer lay minister and respected citizen of the . . . — — Map (db m112084) HM
Pollock, South Dakota Settlers
The first settlers came to this area about 1880. LaGrace, 9 miles southwest, was the first town and the County seat until 1888, when it gradually disappeared. The town of Pollock was founded in 1901 at the end . . . — — Map (db m112086) HM
At this point the Bismarck-Deadwood Stage Trail passed in a line extending about 240 miles from northeast to southwest. In 1877, the Dakota Territorial Legislature commissioned the survey of the trail, which transported passengers and freight . . . — — Map (db m190174) HM
The town of Firesteel takes its name from nearby Firesteel Creek. First known as “Firesteel Station”, it started in May of 1910 with an influx of settlers drawn by rumors an entire section (square mile) to become a government townsite. Many who had . . . — — Map (db m161846) HM
Following the disastrous battles of the Rosebud and Little Big Horn (Custer) in Montana in June, 1876, the Sioux, save Gall and Sitting Bull with 400 lodges who went to Canada and Crazy Horse and his band, in the main, started to drift back to . . . — — Map (db m183413) HM WM
The Castles
Administered by the Forest Service
United States Department of Agriculture
has been designated a
Registered Natural Landmark
This site possesses exceptional value as an . . . — — Map (db m154916) HM
This area and culture was built upon the characteristics of determination and grit, honesty, integrity, and a high level of
respect for family, neighbors, and friends. This description couldn't be any better exemplified than through the life of Bud . . . — — Map (db m279951) HM
Where Highways US 212 and SD 73 meet, at the end of the Cheyenne Branch of the Milwaukee Road, we live, a half mile above sea level of the Fox Ridge Divide, our souls nourished by the picture sunsets.
Our Grass is unsurpassed anywhere, . . . — — Map (db m185219) HM
Small Town
By Badger Clark
The circling cones of bison hide
that made the village of the Sioux
Rose near as high, spread near as wide,
O little Western town, as you.
But small-town skylines all are great
And . . . — — Map (db m185220) HM
This scrap iron sculpture was created to commemorate Sue, the largest, most complete and best preserved T-Rex found to date! Ninety percent of her original bones were found. Only a foot, an arm and a few ribs and vertebrae are missing. Sue was . . . — — Map (db m153969) HM
Hunter with Ashley’s Fur Traders, mauled by a grizzly bear while camping at the forks of Grand River north of Bison in 1823. Left for dead, he survived, crawled south between present towns of Bison and Meadow, hiding from Indians by day, to Fort . . . — — Map (db m164223) HM
Castle
This magnificent structure has been constructed out of prehistoric logs, some of which weigh more than 10,000 pounds apiece. The entire castle is composed of more than 300 tons of petrified rock (think 8 full semi-trucks, or 200 . . . — — Map (db m231224) HM
Ole S. Quammen, the mastermind behind the Petrified Wood Park, was born in 1871, his family immigrated to America in 1872 and homesteaded in MN. When Quammen was 23 he became a Watkins Medical Co. distributor which eventually led him to Voltaire, ND . . . — — Map (db m231140) HM
father of Mrs. Harry C. Olson,
the creator and donor of this,
the world's largest
Petrified Wood Park of its kind.
Mr. Quammen's picture is displayed in the museum. — — Map (db m113240) HM
Petrified wood is actually a fossil. and these are estimated to be 20-30
million years old.
The petrification process can take very little time under the right circumstances but the longer the process is given, the harder the rocks will . . . — — Map (db m231496) HM
Several large red/pink stones can be located throughout the park that have an interesting history. In 1889 North Dakota and South Dakota simultaneously were admitted to the Union and became the 39th and 40th state.
In 1890 US Congress passed a . . . — — Map (db m231228) HM
Constructed in 1933, the Petrified Wood Park Museum is a truly impressive structure. The walls of the building are constructed from petrified logs and the flooring of the original building is made of petrified grass and reeds. The base of the walls . . . — — Map (db m231226) HM
This altar to courage was erected August 1, 1923 by the Neihart Club in honor of Hugh Glass who, wounded and deserted, here began to crawl to Fort Kiowa in the fall of 1823. — — Map (db m152993) HM
Today, approximately 325,000 bison roam North America. Bison, also called buffalo, is the
largest native land mammal in North
America. They once roamed the Great
Plains in large numbers with estimates
ranging from 70 to 150 million. . . . — — Map (db m171940) HM
Be prepared for change
Thunderstorms, blizzards, and inclement weather can strike quickly and with little warning on the Great Plains. Thunderstorms & Wind uring the summer, the sun
heats the ground and causes
powerful convection . . . — — Map (db m174698) HM
Across the reservoir, situated on an overlooking bluff, stands a monument to Hugh Glass, fabled pirate turned fur trader and frontiersman. In August of 1823, while on a fur trapping endeavor with the Ashley Fur Company, Glass was attacked by a . . . — — Map (db m152992) HM
Hugh Glass, a member of the Ashley Fur Party under Major Henry, going up the Grand River in August 1823, a habitual "loner", while hunting, was attacked by a grizzly bear near the Forks of Grand River. Horribly mauled he could not be moved, a . . . — — Map (db m178664) HM
The Development of a Land Survey System
Early methods for allocating unsettled land often led to overlapping claims and border disputes. On May 20, 1875, Congress passed the Land Ordinance of 1785, implementing a standardized system of land . . . — — Map (db m152943)
The little town of Seim slipped below the water and into memory when the Shadehill Dam was built. The town was founded in 1894, named after one of the first pioneer settlers in the area. During its prime in the early 1900s, the town had banks, . . . — — Map (db m152990) HM
Beginning in 1949, the Bureau of Reclamation began construction on a dam on the forks of the Grand River. Built for the purpose of crop irrigation and flood control, Shadehill Reservoir is a part of the larger Pick– Sloan Missouri Basin . . . — — Map (db m152991) HM
The Grand River National Grassland in encompasses 155,000 acres in northwestern South Dakota. The Grand River Ranger District, in Lemmon, South Dakota administers the Grand River and Cedar River National Grassland. The Cedar River National Grassland . . . — — Map (db m154053) HM
This bur oak tree is one of sixty-six planted by South Dakotans for the Inclusive Arts in honor of South Dakota's 125th Anniversary of Statehood and is growing in soil that has been collected by hand from each county and combined equally by the same. — — Map (db m276948) HM
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