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Today, we drove through the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and stopped at the Wounded Knee Memorial. The memorial site was small, and apart from a sign in the car park, there was little to indicate to passersby that this was the site of an important event in American history. Entering the town of
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As we drove across Nebraska, we followed the Platte and North Platte rivers. It became very obvious just how vital the river systems were in this region. The towns, rivers, railroads, roads, and farms were all clustered along the river, and I was surprised at the amount of woodland. I recognised some of the cottonwood
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As we neared Kansas City, we decided to detour and visit the restored nineteenth-century Fort Osage. Perched on bluffs overlooking the Missouri River in Jackson County, Missouri, Fort Osage is a reconstruction of the original fort providing a representation of what the site would have looked like in the early 1800s. It is striking how
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