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| South Dakota Facts |
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Jack McCall was tried, convicted and hanged two miles north of Yankton, South Dakota in 1877 for the shooting of Wild Bill Hickok. He is buried in an unmarked grave in the Yankton cemetery. |
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Badlands National Park, located in South Dakota, contains the world's richest Oligocene epoch fossil beds, dating 23 to 35 million years old. |
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The largest underground gold mine is the Homestake Mine in Lead, South Dakota. |
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