Monday noon
We followed the same road between Deadwood and Rapid City , with the exception that we turned out in one place , and went around by Fort Meade . Here we found a beautiful camping-place the first night near a little stream and great overhanging rocks , and not far from Bear Butte . We reached Rapid late the next night , which was Saturday , and stopped at the old camp near the mill-race . Here we stayed over Sunday , but Monday noon saw us under sail again . As we went through the town we stopped at the freighter 's camp , and told ` Gene Brooks good-bye , and then drove away across the wide rolling plain to the east . ` Gene had warned us that we had a lonesome road before us to Pierre , one hundred and seventy miles , nearly all of it across the reservation . `` You 'll follow the old freight trail all the way , '' he said , `` but you may not see three teams the whole distance , because since the railroad got nearer it is n't used .