Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents. The document we know as the Declaration of Independence was not written in just one sitting. Thomas Jefferson toiled for many weeks, while John Adams, Ben Franklin, and others contributed to the process. The Library of Congress presents a fantastic site dedicated to the development of the Declaration.
Fort Hays Chuckwagon Supper & Cowboy Music Show, south of Rapid City, is home to a âDances With Wolvesâ film set, including original buildings used during the movie. Visitors are able to stand where John J. Dunbar stood when given posting orders, see the supply house and sawmill that were also in the film.
Mountain Lake Hotel was the site for much of the on-location filming of the 1987 hit movie Dirty Dancing which starred Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. The Stone Lodge stood in for Kellerman's Resort, a fictional mountain retreat in the Catskill Mountains of upstate New York.