American Auto Trail-Custer Battlefield Highway (Government Valley WY to Spearfish SD)

Intro:
This American auto trail retraces part of the 1920s Custer Battlefield Highway auto trail, which later became U.S. Highway 14.

The route begins at Government Valley in eastern Wyoming and crosses the state line to Spearfish, South Dakota.

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Vehicle: “Sage” 2018 Nissan Rogue

Music Credits:
Spirit Riders/Telecasted
Crops/Telecasted
Pink Horizon/Chris Haugen
Invincible/Aakash Gandhi
Spanish Rose/Chris Haugen
The Beaten Path/Andrew Langdon
Down the Street Blues/Unicorn Heads
Town of 24 Bars/Unicorn Heads

Map Credit:
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Endnotes:
1) Wyoming, A Guide to its History, Highways and People; Oxford University Press, New York; 1941
2) A South Dakota Guide; State Publishing Company, Pierre; 1938
3) Bartlett, I.S.; History of Wyoming, Volume 1; S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago, 1918; https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
4) “About the Jump”; Vore Buffalo Jump Foundation; https://vorebuffalojump.org/about-the...
5) “Vore Buffalo Jump”; Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office; https://wyoshpo.wyo.gov/index.php/pro...
6) “Custer Battlefield Highway”; American Motorist, Volume 11, Number 11; December 1, 1919; https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
7) Weingroff, Richard; “U.S. 14 Chicago, Illinois, to Yellowstone National Park”; Federal Highway Administration; June 27, 2017; https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructu...