“Little White Roadside Park”

This Roadside Park, one mile west of the ever-flowing, sandhill fed LITTLE WHITE river, that arises 100 miles west near PINE RIDGE AGENCY, is in the midst of the INDIAN COUNTRY.

4.5 miles west is a road that will take you into the scenic valley of the Little White and along it for several miles and to SAINT FRANCIS Indian Mission established in 1885.

Ten miles west of St. Francis is the BIG BEND of the Little White, rivaling in scenic beauty the BLACK HILLS. In the valley to its east below SPRING CREEKS canyon, on an isolated knob is an entrenched outpost made by troops in the MESSIAH WAR of 1890. The view from the mountain inside the bend is magnificent.

Rosebud Agency, established in 1879, for SPOTTED TAIL and his BRULE band of TETON or LAKOTA Sioux is eight miles North of St. Francis. Here CROW DOG killed SPOTTED TAIL in 1881 and was tried in white men’s court and sentenced to death. But the Supreme Court held a Federal Court could not try an Indian for a crime against another Indian on a Reservation. This is not now the law. The Agency is 8 miles South of U.S. No. 18.

If you want diversion, picturesque interest, a dip into HISTORY, magnificent SCENERY, a look at INDIAN LIFE, take this 35 to 50 mile, marked circuit to the South.

Todd County, Highway 18, 11 miles west of Mission