Zikky, a young descendant of the Thirteen-lined Gophers of America, finds more adventure than he bargained for when, bored with guarding the treasure he found as a gift of the Gopher Fairies, he ignor
In the 1940s and 1950s, unable to field competitive football teams of eleven boys, small high schools across the United States started playing with six, instead. Claremont, South Dakota, was one such
In 1936, Marjorie Havreberg left her family home in South Dakota to work for a Senator in Washington, DC; later, as a civilian secretary for the War Department, she was stationed in neutral Turkey dur
Captain Jack Crawford based his poetry and storytelling performances on his adventures as a prospector in the Dodge Expedition to the Black Hills of Dakota Territory. This book collects his letters to
Following sitting Bull's surrender to the United States Army in 1881, the Indian Division of the United States Census Office conducted a full and detailed census of the Sioux Indians at Standing Rock
Much of Seth Bullock's modern renown comes from television, motion pictures, and his friendship with President Theodore Roosevelt. But Bullock was much more than the frontier law enforcer portrayed in
Raccoon, after finding some honey in a tree hollow, is stung by bees and runs for help covered in leaves, as the other animals in the forest, not recognizing him, run to escape.
Cerasani, the son of Arthur Cerasani, a sculptor and artist who worked on Mount Rushmore, tells the story of how his father corresponded with his wife in New York during the work in 1940. He uses thei
While there are many books about Sitting Bull's life, this may be the only one focusing on the 22 months he spent as a prisoner of the U.S. Army at Fort Randall, in what is now South Dakota. Using fir
In the early 1900s, four orphaned siblings, the eldest being seventeen, set out to fulfill their uncle's dream of homesteading in Tripp County, South Dakota, and although they face drought, discomfort
