The Chamberlain Rest Stop in South Dakota

Staff at The South Dakota Tractor Museum recommended Eric and I stop at The Chamberlain Rest Stop on our journey.

  

The Dignity of Earth & Sky Statue

dominates the bluff near

Chamberlain representing the

courage, perseverance & wisdom

of the Lakota & Dakota People.

The Crops of Discovery II

Peace & Friendship

200 Years to the Future

marker commemorates the

Bicentennial of the

Lewis & Clark Expedition

of 1804.

President Thomas Jefferson tasked Meriweather Lewis with exploring the lands west o the Mississippi River in 1804.  Lewis chose William Clark as co-leader for the mission.  The men recruited the Corps of Volunteers for the Northwest Territory.  The group set out on May 18, 1804, from Charles, Missouri.  The Corps mapped over 8,000 miles; named mountains, rivers, and other geological features; collected and sent back botanical and animal samples, and initiated peaceful relationships with dozens of Native American Tribes.  They were gone for so long that the group was feared to be dead.  Lewis and Clark returned to Washington, DC in the fall of 1806 and made their report to the President.  

I step inside the Visitor Center

for South Dakota Brochures.

Our view of the Missouri River

from the bluff.

Eric and I are just a few miles from Al's Oasis in Oacomo, where we will spend the night.