So, I said I had many posts that I could do from my travels last Summer and I haven't forgotten. I am browsing through my images and found some that I liked from Yankton. Named for the Yankton Nakota tribe. It is located on the Lewis and Clark Trail and just an hour or so from where I grew up.
Pretty cool sculpture that you will see if you head to walk across the bridge in Yankton. My Sister and I decided that we were going to walk to Nebraska before we headed home to Oklahoma. So we did.
I realize as an adult how conflicting the information was to be told as a child that you lived in a state that was considered "The Great American Desert" - and to return as an adult and see all the abundant water and realize how many rivers and streams flow through rural eastern Nebraska and South Dakota. Not everything you learn is the truth. Sure if you head west you find yourself in more desolate country but there is still a lot to learn about a region.
It amazes me how little we think about the importance of bridges in our lives until one is gone. Recently the small one lane bridge on the north side of town was out. It reopened this week after about a month of driving around town which was an inconvenience.
In the 19th century Yankton flooded and a small Nebraska town across the river was wiped off the map. The Missouri River is an impressive work of nature.
Yankton- I did not take a lot of photos of Yankton. I mainly photographed the Missouri and the bridge.
Here is one photo from when we stopped for fuel on the way to Sioux Falls.
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