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After the Crows killed a noble Sioux
warrior who was engaged to the chief's
daughter, the brokenhearted maiden
jumped off the butte to "rejoin her
lover in spirit land."
Knox County
The Maiden's Leap in Knox County
is located east of Niobrara, easily
viewed on the south side of Highway
12. The legend that surrounds the area
is credited to Santee Indian origin.
After an uprising in 1862, the Sioux
A lithograph postcard of the same butte from 1908. Notice the person in white
standing at the base. Also, the chalk rock formation at the far left is referred to as
"The Giant's Thumb."
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