LAFRAMBOISE ISLAND NATURE AREA
Island — Pierre, South Dakota
Status: Natural site · Access: Open to public
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/laframboise-island-nature-area-pierre-south-dakota/

Lewis and Clark recorded this Missouri River island in 1804; altered flows later changed its woodland habitat.

LaFramboise Island Nature Area is a island in Pierre, South Dakota. Lewis and Clark recorded this Missouri River island in 1804; altered flows later changed its woodland habitat. Local lore holds that Tourism describes a child-apparition rumor, reported temperature changes and anomalous photographs.

LaFramboise Island is Good Humored Island — the Missouri River island where Lewis and Clark saw the elk and buffalo in September 1804 and named it for their mood. The next day was Bad Humored — the Teton Sioux council at the Bad River mouth, the closest the expedition came to ending. The island that got the good name is the nature area now; the island that got the bad one is gone.
The encounter was the expedition's closest call — the three hundred Lakota who wouldn't let the boats pass, the anchor lost, the chiefs on the gunwales, Clark's men at the swivel. Black Buffalo talked them down; the flag flew over South Dakota for the first time at the council. The island keeps the name of the trader who built the fort; the river keeps the memory of the day the Corps of Discovery almost stopped.
The file keeps LaFramboise Island: the Good Humored naming, the Teton Sioux council, the near-confrontation, and the nature area.
LaFramboise Island is the archive's Lewis-and-Clark file — the island of the good humor before the bad.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
LaFramboise Island is the archive's Lewis-and-Clark file — the island between the good humor and the standoff.
An island keeps its moods — the file's suggestion being that LaFramboise's hold is the sequence: the Good Humored Island of the elk, the Bad Humored Island of the Sioux council, and the expedition's closest brush with ending.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Local folklore] apparition: Tourism describes a child-apparition rumor, reported temperature changes and anomalous photographs. Open country keeps its stories differently — LaFramboise Island Nature Area in Pierre, South Dakota files its reports in weather and distance. Local lore carries the account; no documentation has ever caught up with it. The report is preserved in sources like '8 Haunted Places in South Dakota’s Outdoors'. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: 8 Haunted Places in South Dakota’s Outdoors (https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-outdoors-south-dakota)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Lewis and Clark recorded this Missouri River island in 1804; altered flows later changed its woodland habitat. The landscape's recorded history gives the file real substance underneath the lore. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The detail is preserved in 'LaFramboise Island Nature Area'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.

SOURCES — 2 cited
· 8 Haunted Places in South Dakota’s Outdoors — Travel South Dakota / Austin Kaus
  https://www.travelsouthdakota.com/trip-ideas/haunted-outdoors-south-dakota
· LaFramboise Island Nature Area — South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks
  https://gfp.sd.gov/parks/detail/laframboise-island-nature-area/

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