The granite faces of Mount Rushmore stare out from the Black Hills, but few visitors realize the ground beneath them trembles ...

Rising up from the middle of the Great Plains like cresting waves on a calm sea, the Black Hills offer some of the ... it would have to be the glowing mountain city of Lead (pronounced: leed).

In the Treaty of 1868, the U.S. government promised the Sioux territory that included the Black Hills in perpetuity. Perpetuity lasted only until gold was found in the mountains and prospectors ...