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| South Dakota Facts |
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Perhaps the most significant fur trade/military fort on the western American frontier, Fort Pierre Chouteau, South Dakota was the largest (almost 300' square) and best equipped trading post in the northern Great Plains. Built in 1832 by John Jacob Astor's |
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Fossilized remains of life 50 million years ago have been arranged in unusual forms, which is Lemmon, South Dakota's mark of distinction at the world's largest petrified wood park. |
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The faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln are sculpted into Mount Rushmore located in South Dakota the world's greatest mountain carving. |
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