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After Lewis and Clark, there was Costner. The area around Pierre, South Dakota, where the exploring duo made a brief pit-stop, is also where Dances with Wolves was filmed. The film actually starred buffalo from a local working buffalo ranch. Indigenous Sioux used the animals for everything from sewing needles to meat, until those white guys showed up and nearly decimated the herds. The animal would even now be extinct were it not for James "Scotty" Philip, who gathered the last of the vanishing buffalo and enclosed them in his own pasture; most buffalo around today are descendants of Scotty's herd. Pierrians are justly proud of their capital city, where tourists kick aside the ever-present duck and geese littering the lawn of the restored Capitol building. The Capitol sits next to stunning Capitol Lake and the great Missouri River, which is the place for water sports and fishing. The river shapes Pierre's heritage, bisecting the state and dividing it into distinct cultures, with well-ordered grain fields to the east and rough-and-tumble cattle country to the west.