Big Basin Prairie Preserve
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The Big Basin Prairie Preserve is a 1,818 acres nature preserve owned and managed by the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks. The preserve is in the Red Hills near Ashland in Clark County, Kansas.
Kansas Historical Marker
Big Basin in the fog.
The wet floor of Big Basin.
The Northern Cheyenne Tribe of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation is the federally recognized Northern Cheyenne tribe and a Plains tribe.
Big Basin Prairie Preserve
…Elevations on the preserve range from 2,200 feet (670 m) to 2,360 feet (720 m) above sea level. The area was one of the locations where the Northern Cheyenne camped and rested during the Northern Cheyenne Exodus in the fall of 1878. The area was not occupied, and perhaps not even generally known, by settlers…
Welcome sign
Northern Cheyenne headquarters