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Scottsbluff, Nebraska

one end of the state to the other and, near much of
this river, the Oregon Trail was formed. Over 400,000
people traveled that rugged path, mostly walking,
from Missouri to Oregon and California. It is an
awesome trail where, even 175 years later, wagon ruts
are still etched deep into the rock. Settlers left their
names, dates, and hopes scraped into the cliffsides
Crazy Horse Monument at Ft. Robinson near the trail.

Scottsbluff, on the west side of the state, was a key
landmark for the settlers, letting them know they were
soon to leave the low hills and water for the bigger
challenge of the Rocky Mountains on their way west.
Fort Robinson, in the northwest corner of the state,
was significant in the Indian Wars. Indian chief Crazy
Horse was killed at that fort in 1877. Now the fort
is a state park with a lot of history on display, and a
resident bison population. Near there is Toadstool
Crazy Horse Monument at Ft. Robinson
Geological Park where rock formations that look like

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