The Standing Rock National Native American Scenic Byway is an 86 mile route along the Missouri River breaks that passes buffalo herds and eagles' nests and connects places tied to Lakota and Dakota history and culture. Sitting Bull lived and died here, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark stopped here 14 times, mountain men including Jim Bridger and Jedediah Smith passed through, and Sakakawea is buried here. The byway also reflects the historical consciousness of the Great Sioux Nation through winter counts, calendrical records especially kept by Teton and middle Dakota bands as chronologically organized drawings on buffalo or elk hide, and later on cloth or paper, with each pictograph marking a memorable event and helping preserve oral history. One example, the Long Soldier Winter Count from 1798-1902, was interpreted by Long Soldier, a Hunkpapa chief who signed the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty and settled on the Standing Rock Reservation. On the east side of Fort Yates, overlooking Oahe Reservoir, the Standing Rock Monument gave the Standing Rock Agency its name and, according to legend, is the petrified form of the Arikara wife of a Dakota man with her child on her back.