The Little Sioux Scout Ranch is a 1,800-acre (730 ha) Scout reservation owned by the Gilwell Foundation[1] and operated by the Mid-America Council of the Boy Scouts of America. It is located in Little Sioux, Iowa, about sixty miles north of Omaha, Nebraska in Iowa's Loess Hills and 15 minutes east of Interstate 29.[2]
Hiking trails cover the camp, which is forested with mowed meadows and has both developed and remote campsites. There are also four cabin shelters and a 15-acre (6.1 ha) lake. The Mutual of Omaha Administration Building was completed in 2000, and two years later the MidAmerican Energy Pavilion was finished, seating 300 at picnic tables. Individual packs, troops and posts use the facility, along with Order of the Arrow conclaves, and district and council camporees. Pahuk Pride, a week-long National Youth Leadership Training event, was held annually at the camp until 2017.[3]
The camp was the site of a tornado that killed four Boy Scouts and injured 48 others on June 11, 2008.[4] Many awards for heroism were awarded. The camp reopened in 2009.
In 2021, the Gilwell Foundation announced its intention to sell the camp, citing declining attendance. In January 2023, the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation (INHF) announced that it had signed an agreement to purchase Little Sioux Scout Ranch.[1]
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part of the Great Sioux War of 1876, was fought on November 25, 1876, in present-day Johnson County, Wyoming between soldiers and scouts of the United States...
only broken Dakota, and had little grasp of other dialects. As they entered the encampment, he began to taunt the Sioux, calling their warriors women...
young Sioux warriors. The Sioux thought that the Arapaho were United States Army Indian Scouts and invited them back to their camp along the Little Bighorn...
"Ogallallas Make A Little Boy Chief", New York Times, May 9, 1910. Puffs from the Peace Pipe, p. 10. "Chief Iron Tail and his Sioux braves, squaws, and...
Oglala Sioux tribe include the Prairie Wind Casino, a Parks and Recreation Department, guided hunting, and cattle ranching and farming. The Oglala Sioux Tribe...
1913) was a frontiersman, army scout, and civilian interpreter for George Armstrong Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry during the Little Bighorn Campaign. Fred Gerard...
their appreciation of his labors." During the Great Sioux War of 1876 Crawford was civilian scout with the 5th Cavalry Regiment and war correspondent...
the Northern Arapaho near Julesburg, and the Sioux east of Julesburg, destroying a dozen or more ranches and stagecoach stations along 150 kilometres...
profits, Cody purchased a 4,000-acre (16-km²) ranch near North Platte, Nebraska, in 1886. The Scout's Rest Ranch included an eighteen-room mansion and a large...
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