Death did not stop Sgt. Floyd from travelling. When the Corps of Discovery returned two years later, they were aghast to find that wolves had dug up poor Floyd and scattered his remains. They collected Floyd, reburied him, and replaced his grave marker.

By 1857, the Missouri had eroded away the bluff that held Floyd's grave and threatened to open the grave itself. The good citizens of nearby Sioux City scrambled to move Sgt Floyd to safety, about two hundred yards further from the river.

Sgt Floyd's lost journal was found and published in 1894, which revived interest in him and prompted citizens to exhume his remains and reinter them in sturdy, and presumably wolf-proof, urns. A marble slab was placed over his refurbished grave.

That wasn't enough for the Floyd Memorial Association, which successfully lobbied Congressman George D. Perkins, former editor of the Sioux City Journal, to appropriate $5000 for a proper monument to Sgt Floyd. The state of Iowa matched those funds and private donations matched them both. They moved Floyd to his new home, the one you see here, and dedicated it in 1901. There Sgt Floyd remains. So far.