Lewis and Clark climbed this isolated prairie hill in 1804 after hearing Indigenous accounts of powerful spirits or little people associated with the place. The mound remains one of the relatively few identifiable landscape features where visitors can closely retrace the expedition's route on foot.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: gfp.sd.gov/parks/detail/spirit-mound-historic-prairie/