In the first full biography of Spotted Tail, a prominent leader amongst the Sicangu Lakotas, sinc...

Nancy Tystad Koupal has collected essays from noted scholars of Laura Ingalls Wilder's life and w...

Taken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern American Indian life. T...

A collection of essays that concentrates on some of the political unpredictability of South Dakot...

Much of Seth Bullock's modern renown comes from television, motion pictures, and his friendship w...

In his homage to the infinite west that is South Dakota, both past and present, Englishman Fraser...

A group of gnomes made from found objects secretly helps Western artist Charles Russel and his ap...

Not all politics is party politics. Nowhere is this fact more apparent than within the boundaries...

Max and Hannah are about to go on their first pheasant hunt. But there is much they don't know ab...

Presents the biography of Benjamin Reifel, the first Lakota to serve in the United States Congres...

From 1828 until the late 1860s, the Upper Missouri Outfit of the American Fur Company controlled ...

In the 1940s and 1950s, unable to field competitive eleven-man football teams, small towns across...

'[Darcy] Lipp-Acord is one woman, but she tells a dozen stories, her ancestors' voices mingling w...

Twins Heron and Muskrat learn about maize from their grandfather, who gives Heron a bone carving ...

paperback original, 6 X 9 inches, photo essay, notes, bibliography, index.

With intelligence and growing passion, Alice Bower of Vermillion and Joseph Gossage of Rapid City...

The Populist movement of the 1890s was one of the most successful third-party initiatives in Unit...

Details and photographs the early efforts to create more than six hundred religious buildings bui...

Four young homesteaders strive to succeed on a quarter section in Tripp County, South Dakota, at ...

hardcover with dust jacket, eight-page color insert, bibliography, index

Laura Ingalls Wilder's unedited, and unpublished, draft of her autobiography that was written for...

Ho! for the Black Hills

A secret bombing mission, a crash-landing, a bold escape'€'far from the plains of his homeland, W...

Historians and others have long debated events surrounding the Wounded Knee Massacre of December ...

When Zikky the Gopher wins the golden ball, he faces a tough decision - riches or happiness? Zikk...

After his surrender at Fort Buford in what is now North Dakota, the United States Army transporte...

Just over one hundred years ago, women did not play baseball, and they certainly did not umpire t...

'As a child, I thought of my townas most children probably doas just an ordinary place. . . . Yet...

254 pages, 4 3 4 x 8 inches, paperback, first volume in the South Dakota Biography Series

Following Sitting Bull's surrender to the United States Army in 1881, the Indian Division of the ...

Cutting-edge and sometimes controversial, the stunning art of Paul Goble (b. 1933) evokes many em...

'All tasks of womencooking, caring for children, tanning and sewingwere considered dignified and ...

Features twelve essays on a range of topics that consider South Dakota's underlying political cul...

This book follows six mischievous adventures of Iktomi, the Lakota name for the American Indian '...

'No Indian of modern times can compare with him in ability, courage and statecraft.'Denver Times,...

After the Great Spirits created the world, Tatanka, the holy man, turned himself into a buffalo a...

For those curious about the mine structures that dot the Black Hills landscape, this illustrated ...

'Ladies, prepare your ballots.''¬‚¬'Cheyenne Leader, 6 Dec. 1869

Curiosity leads a young warrior to track a new animal. It leads him far from home, but at last he...

An introduction to Standing Bear and his world brought to life through the collages of Arthur Ami...

As a cowboy, Ed Lemmon saddle-handled more cattle than any man in history. As a cattleman, he ove...

Letter books, which contained copies of all outgoing correspondence, were once common items at al...

bibliography, index, eight-page photo essay

Bang, bang, tap, tap - the scientists at an underground laboratory in South Dakota are busy with ...

American Library Association Amelia Bloomer List Finalist

Romanticized scenes of heroic soldiers fighting on the vast plains are strewn throughout early ch...

North of Twelfth Street

Pickup trucks and eagles, yellow school buses and painted horses, Mother Earth and Sister Meadowl...