Badger Clark (1883-1957), South Dakota's first poet laureate, is best known for his 'A Cowboy's P...

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...

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

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. They have taken their saftey course,...

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...

At a time when values of frugality, home, family, and care of the land seem increasingly absent, ...

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Laura Ingalls Wilder's unedited, and unpublished, draft of her autobiography that was written for...

In 1875, a young man from Pennsylvania joined the Dodge Expedition into the Black Hills of Dakota...

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...

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

“As a child, I thought of my town—as most children probably do—as just an ordinary place. . . . Y...

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

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

Sioux women are the center of tribal life and the core of the tiospaye, the extended family. They...

'Fergie, the football coach, is an All-American character. The book is a rollicking fun read.' --...

First impressions of the political landscape in South Dakota tend towards an assumption of hard-l...

A celebrated warrior who led his people to victory on the battlefield, Red Cloud was also a skill...

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...

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

bibliography, index, eight-page photo essay

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

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

American Library Association Amelia Bloomer List Finalist

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

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

Sioux Falls is the largest city in South Dakota, although it would barely register as a small tow...