In the tradition of the western cowboy North Dakota tradition of the family we have here Nick and his son Alex (Alexander) Charles Boutrous along the Little Missouri River in the Badlands of North Dakota in 2009.

Nick is the great-grandson of Christine and Anders Erickson of Regan, grandson of Clara and Frank Erickson and Attas (Ghattas) Fares and Della Nassif Boutrous both of Bismarck and son of Dian Marcella (Erickson) and Floyd Nick Boutrous also of Bismarck.

The Little Missouri River is a tributary of the Missouri River, 560 miles long, in the northern Great Plains of the United States. Rising in northeastern Wyoming, in western Crook County about 15 miles west of Devils Tower, it flows northeastward, across a corner of southeastern Montana, and into South Dakota.

In South Dakota, it flows northward through the Badlands into North Dakota, crossing the Little Missouri National Grassland and both units of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. In the north unit of the park, it turns eastward and flows into the Missouri in Dunn County at Lake Sakakawea, where it forms an arm of the reservoir 30 miles long called the Little Missouri Bay and joins the main channel of the Missouri about 25 miles northeast of Killdeer.