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Article: Black Hills: Trip to South Dakota is rock solid
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 3, 2004
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Almost any place is magical when seen through the eyes of a child.
That's doubly true of an already-beautiful place like South
Dakota's Black Hills, where my husband and I took our daughters
recently for a visit.
The Black Hills, and indeed most of western South Dakota, are a
mass of contradictions. The Hills, as South Dakotans call them, still
bear traces of the "Wild West" of the 1800s and of the mining
interests that continue to hold sway in some areas, but they are also
the Paha Sapa, center of Lakota spiritualism and one of the culture's
most sacred places.
And then there's the contrast between the dignity and natural
inspiration of places like Mount Rushmore, the under-construction ...