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The Visitor Center in Medora |
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Below: Giant round coin plaques |
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Below: sign and statues on the outside of the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Medora, ND |
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Below: close-up photo of the plaque underneath the above statues. |
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Below: A tribute to Marquis de Mores - Antoine-Amédée-Marie-Vincent Manca Amat de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Morès et de Montemaggiore (June 14, 1858 – June 9, 1896), commonly known as the Marquis de Morès. He was a famous duelist, frontier ranch man in the Badlands of Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West era, a railroad pioneer in Vietnam, and an anti-Semitic politician in his native France. |
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 Marquis de Mores resigned from the French cavalry in 1882 and married Medora von Hoffman, sometimes called the Marquise. Soon thereafter, they moved to the ND Badlands to begin ranching, purchasing 44,500 acres for that purpose. He also opened a stagecoach business. He named his simple vernacular house in Medora, ND, the "Chateau de Mores"; it is preserved as a historic house there.
Marquis de Mores built a meat-packing plant in Medora, the town he founded in 1883 and named for his wife. The purpose of the meat-packing plant was to revolutionize the ranching industry by shipping refrigerated meat to Chicago by railroad, thus by-passing the Chicago stockyards. But the plant did not survive. Not long after, just as winter was settling in on the Badlands in 1886, de Mores and his wife left Medora for good. The short-lived reign of the Emperor of the Badlands was over. |
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Below: The "Chateau de Mores" mentioned in the paragraph above which is in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
One Photo from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chateau_de_Mores |
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Marquis de Mores statue |
country singer in the town plaza |
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Big TR teddy bear in a store |
Tribute to the Civilian Conservation Corps |
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