Day Four | 14th May 2017

Medora to Standing Rock, North Dakota.
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Distance: 208 miles
Total: 570 miles

After a walk through the extraordinary Painted Canyon, we drove down red dirt roads to find Initial Rock, where two of General Custer's men carved their names at an overnight camp in 1876, en route to what would become known as the Battle of Little Big Horn. 

The Painted Canyon

Much dust

Walking in the midday heat.

Initial Rock

From Initial Rock we headed east, eventually making our way to Prairie Knights, a casino and hotel just south of Cannonball, owned and run by the Standing Rock Sioux. It is a peculiar, and somewhat terrifying place, filled with cigarette smoke and slot machines. 

Photographs are not allowed in the casino, but this recording gives an indication of what it was like to wander among the hundreds of machines.

Sunset over the Standing Rock Reservation