Being smack in the middle of the Black Hills, Lead has nature in abundance ... the trail now offers hikers, mountain bikers, and ATV riders 109 miles of crisscrossing paths.

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains ... nation ownership of the Black Hills, which were considered sacred ...

In the Treaty of 1868, the U.S. government promised the Sioux territory that included the Black Hills in perpetuity. Perpetuity lasted only until gold was found in the mountains and prospectors ...