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	Mandan Indian Village Tip Rating:

By Florida999 on August 25, 2006

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Mandan Village

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This is located inside Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park, but you have to pay extra for it. You also have to go on a guided tour , which is understandable, since they have put an incredible amount of effort in constructing the village with lots of attention to detail.

It was very interesting to learn about the Mandan Indians, whom I had never heard of before this. There aren't any real Mandan's left now, most of them died from smallpox when settlers arrived and with them the diseases that the Indians were not immune too.

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	World's Largest Grasshopper Tip Rating:

By zrim on August 24, 2003

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nice grasshopper

by zrim

Another fifteen miles down the Enchanted Highway we come to the World's Largest Grasshopper. This grasshopper is forty feet tall and fifty feet long and it certainly dwarfs Becky who is standing next to its rear hip (though I suppose technically grasshoppers don't have hips since they don't have bones).

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	A covey of giant metal pheasants Tip Rating:

Updated By zrim on October 27, 2003

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pheasants

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The Enchanted Highway calls for a fairly serious time comitment. Starting from Dickinson the entire round trip is over 100 miles long and the speed limit along the Enchanted Highway is only 45 mph. The entire route is going to take over two hours. Bring water because there is not much in the way of services along the route.

The lead pheasant is forty feet tall, seventy feet long and weighs in at 13,000 lbs. That's a lot of pheasant.

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	Meeting the grasshopper head on Tip Rating:

By zrim on August 24, 2003

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eye to eye with the
grasshopper

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The scrap metal sculptures are the brainchild of "artist" Gary Greff, a retired school teacher. The idea is to turn scrap metal into giant art and follows the philosophy first articulated in that modern American classic baseball book "Shoeless Joe": "If you build it, they will come." The "they" in this particular case are tourists with pockets full of money. The only hitch as far as I can tell is that there does not seem to be any place along the Enchanted Highway where the tourist can unload his or her cash.

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	Knife River Indian Villages Tip Rating:

Updated By zrim on August 7, 2003

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Knife River visitor center

by zrim

A National Historic site which means it is part of the national park system. No entrance fee, a very nice little museum filled with artifacts and a great bookshop.

In 1804 when Lewis and Clark visited, the Hidatsa village at Knife River had 3000-5000 inhabitants. The explorers invaluable guide, Sakakawea, lived in this village before joining the expedition.

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	Jamestown Tip Rating:

By zrim on August 5, 2003

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the Lutheran church
dominates the downtown
area

by zrim

Hometown of western adventure writer Louis L'Amour and jazz standards singer Peggy Lee, Jamestown has two American icons to its credit. But it is probably most famous for being home to the world's largest buffalo (a 46 by 26 foot sixty ton sculpture honoring the bison) and for being the hometown of "white cloud" the one in a billion albino buffalo. Check out my Jamestown page for more tidbits.

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	On-A-Slant-Village Tip Rating:

By zrim on August 4, 2003

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Mandan earthlodge

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The earthlodges at On-Slant-Village at Fort Abraham Licoln State Park are masterfully recreated. At one time there were eighty-five of these earthlodge structures on this site next to the Missouri River. The inhabitants were called the Mandan people. The Mandan were devestated by small pox in the 1780s and this village was eventually abandoned.

www.fortlincoln.com

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	Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park Tip Rating:

By zrim on August 5, 2003

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rustic visitor center

by zrim

The oldest state park in North Dakota and probably the most expensive. They hit us up for a $5 vehicle fee and a $5 per person entrance fee for a total of $15. But this is a very nice and unique park that has commanding views of the Missouri River. Not only can you visit a U.S. federal fort and western outpost, but also a recreated Mandan indian village. This photo shows the visitor center which includes very nice modern exhibits on the natural history and traditional history of the region.

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	The Enchanted Highway Tip Rating:

By zrim on August 23, 2003

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Warning: Deer Crossing

by zrim

Giant metal sculptures dot the so-called Enchanted Highway between Gladstone and Regent about 15 miles east of Dickinson. The first sculpture just south of Gladstone is "Deer Crossing" which is still less than a year old having been "sculpted" in September 2002.

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	Standing Rock Tip Rating:

Updated By zrim on November 7, 2003

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what's the lesson?

by zrim

Actually not a "must see" at all. It is located in the boonies of south central North Dakota far from any major city or state park. But you can get a glimpse of the rock from Fort Abraham Lincoln State Park. I zoomed to 300 mm and blew the photo up on photoshop to get this view. It is very small and insignificant when viewed from the state park.

According to the native american legend, an Arikara women refused to follow her husband after he took on a second wife. The husband returned to his village figuring she would eventually follow. She never did and when the village went searching for her they found that she had been turned into this mass of stone.

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