MOBRIDGE

city, Walworth county, northern South Dakota, U.S. It lies along the Missouri River (there broadened to form Lake Oahe). It was founded in 1906 on the site of Arikara and Sioux Indian villages as a division point of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railroad. Its name combines the abbreviation Mo. (Missouri) and bridge (across the river). It developed as an agricultural-trade centre. The grave of the Sioux Indian chief Sitting Bull and a monument to Sacajawea (Bird Woman), who was a guide for the Lewis and Clark Expedition, are across the river near where the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Indian reservations merge. The Mobridge Municipal Auditorium has murals by Oscar Howe, a Sioux artist, and the Land of the Sioux Museum displays Indian relics. The Sitting Bull Stampede is an annual rodeo. Inc. 1907. Pop. (1990) 3,768.