Dakota Midday: Images Of The Past, Grand Duke Of Russia's Bison Hunt

SDPB | By Lori Walsh

Published February 8, 2016 at 1:46 PM CST

In 1871, the Grand Duke Alexis, the fourth son of Tsar Alexander II, was sent by his father to help build friendship with America. Gary Enright, of the 1881 Courthouse Museum in Custer, shares the story of a young Russian nobleman taken with the charms of the American West.

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