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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM251P_native-american-scenic-byway_Mobridge-SD.html
Welcome to the Standing Rock National Native American Scenic Byway, an 86 mile route which follows a stretch of highway that climbs up and down the stunning Missouri River breaks and runs past buffalo herds and eagle's nests. History comes alive o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM251G_jedediah-smith_Mobridge-SD.html
1799-1831
When Jedediah was 23 years of age he went to St. Louis and enlisted with General William H. Ashley as an employee of the Rocky Mountain Fur co. In 1823 he was with Ashley and a party of 90 trappers, traders, and boatmen when they we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM250R_the-arikara-people_Mobridge-SD.html
"This village is built upon an open prairie, and the gracefully undulating hills the rise in the distance behind it are everywhere covered with a verdant green turf, without a tree or a bush anywhere to be seen. This view was taken from the deck…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM250K_the-fur-trade_Mobridge-SD.html
Although extensive trade networks were always part of the economies of the indigenous Tribes in North America, the trade in furs between Native peoples and European traders emerged as the major tribal industry on the Missouri River from the early …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24AF_honored-leaders_Mobridge-SD.html
Leadership in the American Indian culture is much different than the Euro-American views. Unlike the Euro-American concept of a formal majority vote to select a leader, American Indians were made leaders by those who simply chose to follow them. T…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24AD_lewis-and-clark-expedition_Mobridge-SD.html
In 1804-06, Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led about 40 soldiers and boatmen on an epic journey. President Thomas Jefferson commissioned this "Corps of Discovery' to find a route to the Pacific Ocean through the newly acquired Louisia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249Y_they-just-did-a-mans-job_Mobridge-SD.html
During the Indian uprisings in Minnesota in 1862, a band of Santee Sioux Indians took several white women and children captive. They brought them to an area near here, opposite the mouth of the Grand River in present-day Walworth County, South Dak…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249V_sakakawea-and-lewis-clark_Mobridge-SD.html
One of the most notable women in American History may well be Sakakawea. A Shoshoni Indian girl named Sakakawea, acted as an interpreter while traveling with the Corps of Discovery on their way to and from the Pacific Ocean. As the Corps headed we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM249T_lewis-and-clark-mobridge_Mobridge-SD.html
Lewis and Clark
The Lewis a nd Clark Expedition, officially the Corps of Discovery, was in what is now South Dakota from August 21 to October 14, 1804 and from August 21 to September 4, 1806.
While here they would make numerous discoveri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2496_history-beneath-the-waters_Mobridge-SD.html
A bit of history lies under the water behind Oahe Dam. Before the dam was built many islands and sandbars were commonly found along the Missouri River. When the Corps of Discovery traveled along this river on the way to the Pacific Ocean they land…