Infinite Road
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Rapid City → Deadwood

Through the Black Hills to the gold-rush town. Tap a numbered dot and listen.

Narrated by The Chronicler 67 km · about 43 min · 9 stories

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Rapid City, South Dakota

    The Pap Madison Cabin

  2. 2
    Rapid City, South Dakota

    The Sioux and Black Hills

  3. 3
    Black Hawk, South Dakota

    The Lost Town of Sacora

  4. 4
    Piedmont, South Dakota

    The 1876 Gold Rush

  5. 5
    Piedmont, South Dakota

    The Founding of Black Hills National Cemetery

  6. 6
    Sturgis, South Dakota

    The Sacred Mount Mato Paha

  7. 7
    Sturgis, South Dakota

    Annie Tallent's Black Hills Journey

  8. 8
    Sturgis, South Dakota

    Wild Bill Hickok's Deadwood End

  9. 9
    Sturgis, South Dakota

    Seth Bullock's Frontier Life

Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.