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6. FORT PIERRE, SOUTH DAKOTA Rancher Roy Rogers Norman and his wife Edith left a lasting mark in South Dakota. They researched 1880s surveyor maps to discover pioneer trails and, beginning in 1975, they personally dug post holes and painted 52 signs to mark one such route: the Deadwood Trail going westward from Fort Pierre, South Dakota—population 1,991. For the past two years, the museum that Roy Norman helped organize, Verendrye Museum, has continued the Normans’s preservation efforts by k