Buffalo Ridge, South Dakota: 1880 Cowboy Town
Abe Lincoln never visited South Dakota, but his robot is part of a fake 1880s South Dakota main street, built by a retired school teacher. Wild West robots and cryptic displays, too.
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1880 Cowboy Town A "bad" cowboy town in contrast to the "good" cowboy town in Murdo (where Dances with Wolves was filmed). We enjoyed the roughness of this town (and the lower price), especially because of the tour details provided by the elderly man.
[eric schansberg, 07/25/2012]
1880 Cowboy Town Found this with the iPhone app, stopped and entered the store, smelled it, and left -- feeling a little creeped out. Our ten-year old daughter caught wind of what we had just left, and all four children wanted to go back, so we did. It was educational, if not a teeny bit cryptic. Comanche the Ghost Horse was a huge favorite, and Abe Lincoln's speech left us, well, speechless. We are glad we went back. This is road tripping at its best!
[turvinator, 06/29/2012]1880 Cowboy Town gets our highest endorsement. Keeping robots employed since the... 1880s!
1880 Cowboy Town We were 20 miles past this exit when my son read about this place in the iPhone app and convinced me to turn around. It was well worth going out of our way for. Dean, the 80 year old proprietor, was friendly and full of interesting tidbits about South Dakota. And the animatronic displays were all we'd hoped for and more.
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1880 Cowboy Town
- Address:
- 46614 W. Hwy 38, Buffalo Ridge, SD
- Directions:
- Out behind the Buffalo Ridge Country Store. I-90 exit 390, then drive west a quarter-mile on Hwy 38.
- Phone:
- 605-528-3931
- RA Rates:
- The Best
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- Concrete Outline of USS South Dakota, Sioux Falls, SD - 8 mi.
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That man was most likely Dean Songstadt, who helped to build the town back in the 1960s. We wish all cowboy towns were as "bad" as this one -- we thought it was great!