To many of the local Native American tribes, the Black Hills are a sacred space, the equivalent of Jerusalem. Unfortunately, the hills sat on large quantities of gold, and miners ultimately desecrated them. Soon afterward, the hills became a tourist honey pot, attracting them by the thousands. These days the area is filled with attractions, ranging from the tasteful and informative to the inane. I explore some of them today. Wall Drug To start with, I needed breakfast, so I went to what is probably the biggest tourist trap of them all, Wall Drug. Wall Drug started as an actual drugstore run by Ted Husted in a small town near th
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