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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NC3_bad-lands-cantonment_Medora-ND.html
The Bad Lands Cantonment, a temporary military base to protect railroad construction workers from Indian attacks, was established on November 10, 1879. At first consisting of only canvas tents, the cantonment soon grew to eight lumber buildings, s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NC1_frontier-military_Medora-ND.html
The Little Missouri Badlands played a key strategic role in the conflict between American Indians and the expanding United States.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NBX_de-mores-packing-plant_Medora-ND.html
was built on this site by the Marquis De Mores in 1883 to furnish dressed beef directly from the western ranges. It was successfully operated for several years, destroyed by fire 1907.Exhibits on other side< Reverse Side : > Site of the De Mores P…
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Antoine Amédé Marie Vincent Amat Manca de Vallombrosa, more commonly known as the Marquis de Mores, was a French aristocrat with an entrepreneurial spirit typical of the late 1800s. The Marquis was one of many who sought to profit fr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NBQ_loading-dock_Medora-ND.html
A spur track connected the slaughterhouse with the main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad. Ice from the icehouses to your right were used to cool the refrigerator cars when the meat was loaded into them.The Marquis owned cold storage facilitie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NBJ_ccc-camp_Medora-ND.html
The Civilian Conservation Corps was a peacetime "army" of civilians between 1933 and 1941 which served to create jobs for unemployed men and to protect natural resources. Two CCC camps were located near Medora.In 1934 the CCC camp of Com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NBH_western-entertainment_Medora-ND.html
The picturesque Little Missouri badlands are a unique landscape. The arrival of the railroad in 1880 opened the area to tourists who wanted to experience the western lifestyle.The first dude ranch in America opened in 1882, four miles south of Med…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NBG_american-indian-leaders_Medora-ND.html
Three prominent leaders among the Lakota and Dakota Sioux who called this region home and resisted encroachment by white Americans were Tatanka Iyotake (Sitting Bull), Pizi (Gall), and Inkpaduta (Red Point).Sitting Bull, born in 1831, became an in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N56_the-shooting-of-riley-luffsey_Medora-ND.html
William Riley Luffsey was born in Wayne County, Missouri, around 1859. He died in a gun battle along the Little Missouri River on June 26, 1883, about a mile west of the twin towns of Little Missouri and Medora.Riley Luffsey was a popular young ma…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1N4W_de-mores_Medora-ND.html
In memory ofAntoine Manca de VallombrosaMarquis de MoresLieutenant French CavalryBorn in Paris 1858Killed in North Africa 1896and of his wifeMedorawho founded this town in 1883