Hugh Glass Monument – Lemmon, South Dakota

Hugh Glass Monument.jpgThe Monument near Lemmon, South Dakota (actually at Shadehill, South Dakota) remembers Hugh Glass, who was robbed and left for dead by fellow travelers stands at the end of a winding unpaved road on a bluff near Shadehill, south of Lemmon, overlooking a manmade lake.

Frontiersman Hugh Glass was nearly killed by a grizzly bear here in 1823. Glass revived and crawled, with a broken leg, infection and fever, 200 miles to safety. He was later killed in an Indian ambush.

Location: Shadehill, 11 miles south of Lemmon, west of hwy. 73 on Hugh Glass Road

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