We've been around since 1985, and in that time we've covered the state from end to end and top to bottom — chances are we've written about your favorite town or person or bit of history in that time.
Back issues of South Dakota Magazine are available. You can order them one at a time ($5 each issue or $3 for 3 or more) or a complete set (55 issues for $149). Call 800-456-5117 or contact Ruth Steil.
January-February 2008
Hyde County
Highmore
Greg Latza's photos of Sioux Falls
Peever's Music Jamborees
A peek inside Yankton's Masonic Temple
Buffalo recipe
Chased across Perkins County
Photos of Father Ambrose's from Stephan Mission
Paul Peterson's paintings
Herman Raschke
November-December 2007
Historian Herbert Hoover
Vermillion
Edgar McFadden's Hope Wheat
Bijou Hills
Pine Ridge autumn photos by Stephen Gassman
Krumkake recipe
USS South Dakota
Letcher school goes abroad
Horses surviving in winter
Emmett Riley remembers the Black Hills industry
Spearfish's wildlife sanctuary
Eyewitness to Explorer I
September-October 2007
Prairie Peaches
Edward Griffin, London's literary gift
Little Big Horn revisited
Pollock's three stone idols
Eureka
College homecoming traditions
Melvin Marousek's article about his father's trees
Entrepreneurship spotlighted at Mavericks luncheon
Slim Buttes
Black Walnut recipe
Kidnapper Verne Sankey
Hall of Fame 2007 honorees
July-August 2007
Hill City
Mulberry recipe
Gavin's Point Dam
River conservation photos by Joe Riis
Crash of the Flying Sioux
Teaching bass fishing
McCook County owl
John Penor's photos from the town of Bison
The Gormans of Rapid City passion for autos and art
Journey Museums new exhibit features early travel photos
Snake Bit in Perkins County
Hazel Mahone, hairdresser and humanitarian
May-June 2007
Centerville
Farmers market seven day challenge
The meaning of baseball
Windsurfing Oahe
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
Rhubarb recipe
Axel Sacrison depiction if Harding County's Finnish heritage
Gathered for a gun show
Revisiting White River
Clarence Wolf Guts, the last Lakota code talker
March-April 2007
Martin
Vine Deloria Jr.
Solitary Art of Tim Vogel
Outlaw Ranch in the Southern Hills
At home on the grassland photos by Jim Brandenburg
Fresh water salmon and recipe
Touring Pennington County
Picturing the past photos by Scott Myers
January-February 2007
Watertown and Lake Kampeska
Spearfish Canyon photo's by Les Voorhis
Valentine McGillycuddy's house
Cheyenne River re-enactment painted by artists
Johnny One Feather
Frederick Dupree's visionary buffalo roundup
C.C. Gideon master builder
Chokecherry Valentines recipe
Delmont's dark tower
Guide to Higher Education
November-December 2006
Volga
Iron Mountain Road
Black Hills Gold
Missouri River Boatbuilders
Cheyenne River Reservation Children's Photo Essay
Ofiice Lutefisk Party
Black Hills Today & Yesterday
Geniuses From Canton
At War No More
2006 SD Gift Guide
September-October 2006
Belle Fourche
SD Book Festival
Ray Tysdal's Wildlife
The Making of Dakota Territory
Milbank's Cheesemakers
Coming Home From Vietnam
Our First Beauty Queen
Hemingway's Secret Hunt
Tractors Anchor Men to the Soil
Hall of Fame Inductees
July-August 2006
Let'er Buck
Pierre
Dewey Beard: Last Man Standing
Storm Chasing
Overheard at the Alex Johnson
Trailing the James Brothers
Sheep Dogs at Sturgis
Hetland's Smithy
Three States of SD
May-June 2006
Hartford
Paddling on the Prairie
A Hollywood Find
Philosophy, Pilanthropy and Fishin'
Calamity Jane, We hardly Knew You
Spring Branding at Deep Creek
Last Year at Deep Creek
Reunion at Roscoe
Prairie Version of a Clam Bake
Deadwood's Old Tunes
March-April 2006
Aberdeen
Rick's Salt
Exploring the Cave Hills
Wild Babies
A Stoney Retreat
12 of SD Great Athletes
Footprints on Film
The Lek Dance
LaFramboise Island
Requiem for a Catfish
January-February 2006
Salem
Art of Nancyjane Huehl
Rustling with Politicians
Eye in the Sky
Lakota Gifts
Ghost Town Keepers
Ghost Town Friends
Aboard the North Alabama
After the HarvestÔø‡Ôø‡Ôø‡Winter
2006 Education Guide
November-December 2005
Redfield
De Smet Stone House
Patterns of Nature
Stratobowl
Mark McGinnis
Deadwood Photos
Sioux Falls (East River)
Academy, SD Poorhouse
Cedar Waxwings
SD Gift Guide
Septmber-October 2005
Sioux Falls
Kent Meyers
USD's Historic Photos
Menno's Tractor Races
Poems and Paintings (David Allan Evans and Ken Steinley)
Autumn photos
National Beef Cook-off
Hall of Fame Inductees
Black Hills Foothills Towns
SD Festival of Books
July-August 2005
USD's Doc Farber
Favorite Campsites
Black Hills Playhouse
Photographers' Favorites
Huron
Race Day
Pickeral Lake
Doland's Hubert Humphrey
Bennett County Tornadoes
Freeman's Chislic
Refugee Doctor Anthony Petres
Chief Iron Nation
May-June 2005
Lightning on the Plains
Highway 85
Hot Springs
Norm Evers (McCrory Gardens)
Black Hills Fire Towers
Bill Groethe Photographer
Swift Fox
Deerfield (Castle Creek)
Civilian Conservation Corps
Carousel (fiction)
March-April 2005
20 SD museum artifacts
Tyndall
Artists Brett and Tammy Prang
Hearing the Deaf
Sacred Heart Monastery
Robert E. Hayes
Letter from Grant Co.
Viborg's Alvin Hansen
Blizzard of 1966
January-February 2005
Pine Ridge
Faulkton Elevator
Marshall County Winter
Native Voices
Ice Fishing
Cottonwood Tree
Ft. Randall Dam
Beadle County Farm
November-December 2004
Special Tribute to South Dakota Music
Myron Lee
Brule
Madison
Sculptor Tony Chytka
Dome Builder
Lakota Christmas
Custer State Park
September-October 2004
Cowboy Life, Photography by Johnny Sundby
Autumn in Interior
Seductive Spearfish
Badlands Color
Biking the Missouri
Gliders - Soaring with Eagles
July-August 2004
Patching Rushmore
Campfire Dreams
Lewis & Clark Historic Reenactments
Platte: The Busy City
Tiny Towns
Stories of WWII Survivors
May-June 2004
Living Downtown - City Lofts
Subtlety in Springtime
Groton Today
The Mickelson Trail
Britton's Beauty
Prairie Palaces of Justice
Traveling Highway 1804
March-April 2004
Exploring Black Hills Waterfalls
Changing Clay - South Dakota Ceramists
Four Survivors in Buffalo County
Mobridge to Lemmon on Hwy 12
Brandon's Boom
Sturgis' Grand Dame
January-February 2004
Under the Capitol Dome
Ice Climbing
Cookin' Kuchen
The Independent town of Black Hawk
Bicentennial Perspectives
41st Street Sioux Falls
Living in Logs
November-December 2003
Black Hills Winter
Historic Yankton
Holiday Foods
Rapid City, 1973
Love, Laughter and Lutefisk
EROS Data Center
A Scandinavian Santa
September-October 2003
Dell Rapids
Deadwood's Fall Foliage
Women Through South Dakota Eyes
Sioux Falls Architect Ward Whitwam
Corn for Mitchell's Corn Palace
The Missouri, South Dakota's River Legend
July-August 2003
Brookings Unbounded
Iron Mountain Road
Sun Dance at Green Grass
Sioux Falls Highlights
Ten Favorite Beaches in S.D.
May-June 2003
Beresford
Crazy Horse
A Chalkstone Town Crumbles by the Missouri
Rapid City Eateries
Martin Busch's Half-century with the Public Airwaves
March-April 2003
Bear Country
Rapid City
Crazy Horse
International Flying Farmers
Aberdeen's Musician and Composer, John Cacavas
Jon Hunter, Third-generation Head of the Madison Leader
November-December 2002
Wagner
Wagner's Bill Evers
Timber Raising
Dakota Dunes
When Harry Met Gregory
Trygve Trooien's Overall Preservation
The Two Women of Ardmore
Eyeing A Vast Universe
DM&E's Railroad Roulette
September-October 2002
Wessington Springs
Prairie Rattlers
Spring at Astoria
Paddlefish
Saving McKennan Park
Double Exposure of the Custer Expedition
Seven Nights in Black Hills Bars
Back in the Saddle Again
July-August 2002
Crouse & Crew Clown Company
Parker
George Voigt
The Old Reliables of 7th Street
Sioux Falls' River
Airy Destinations
Rockin' The Spearfish Pavilion
Sculptor Porter Williams
Little Village Farm
May-June 2002
Mitchell
Batman of Rapid City
Only in South Dakota
Gordy Pratt
Sailing Francis Case
Lemmon's Grand River Museum
Guns of Sturgis
Walking Sylvan Lake
Buffalo for The Broken Heart
March-April 2002
Flandreau
Belle Fourche's Don Smith
Mares
On Leeland's Trail
Bull Fight
Helping Timber Lake Grow
Sculptor Nancy Losacker
January-February 2002
Deadwood
Cross-Country Skiing
Davison County Winter
Insane Hospital Fire
Minerva's
Miner County Graves
Blacksmith Jack Parks
Long Hollow
Vineyards
Frost Pictures
November-December 2001
Vermillion
Pine Ridge Revival
John Nordlie
Fort Sully
Francis Jones
Selden
Washburn
Highway 81
McGovern
Claude Barr Garden
Ringer Ranch
Bushnell
September-October 2002
Sisseton
Wild Missouri
Ghost Busting
Rose Mary Goodson
>Hotel Alex Johnson
Echinacea
Hall of Fame
Frog Creek
Sica Hollow
Dorothy Morgan
July-August 2001
Ancient Rock Art
Pelican Paradise
Pierre
Ray Kelly
Odd Fellows
Orphanage
Sutton Ranch
Spearfish Creek
Fossils
Hunting at Firesteel Creek
May-June 2001
Stagebarn Canyon
Aberdeen
100 Unique Things to do in South Dakota
Vernon Ashley
Bristol Tornado
Mary Borglum
Al's Oasis
Farm Cats
Charles Greener
March-April 2001
Open Spaces
Hoven
Bob Karolevitz
Homestake
Mayor of Monroe
Letcher
Wheelwright
Black Elk Vision
Dust to Dust
January-February 2001
Watertown
Favorite Restaurants
Great Escape
Edgemont
Berlin Wall
POW in South Dakota
John Lopez
Polio
Minnehaha County
November-December 2000
Frawley Ranch
Canton
Hispanic Sioux Falls
Downtown Yankton
Fort Meade POW
Batesland Raid
Arikara Ghost Town
Wounded Knee Christmas
September-October 2000
Rosebud Hog Farm
Riding the Rails
Selby
Fly-fishing the Hills
Vera Siegmund
Galen Wallum
Bear Butte
July-August 2000
Mickelson Trail
Elk Point
Jerome Kills Small
Herrick
Lyle Telkamp
Josef Meier
Christmas Doll
May-June 2000
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Webster
Emmett Benett
Wakonda
W.H. Over
White Swan Burials
Rainbow Ranch
Fulton
Black Hills Music
Ft. Randall Church
Willis Hall
March-April 2000
Pasque Flower
Missouri Bridges
SuAnne Big Crow
Clark
Halverson & Weber
Shorty Wallin
Mountain Gardening
January-February 2000
Hoop Dancing
Depression Memories
Olivet
Red Cloud
Deep Creek School
Barn Straightener
Bob Lee
November-December 1999
Red Canyon
A Reservation Winter
Seeking the First South Dakotans
Mobridge
A Cow's Life
September-October 1999
Mick Harrison
Sioux Falls
Rocks
Why Dick and Jane Don't Right Too Good
Phantom Western Found
The Hidewood
Badlands Autumn
Justice Takes Center Stage
July-August 1999
Robert Wong
Wolves
Custer
Kathleen Taylor
Grain Harvest
Martin Collins - Buffalo Man
Powwows
Split Rock Creek
May-June 1999
Pelicans
Sacrison Family
Mt. Moriah
Spencer Tornado
Gregory
National Grasslands
Washington Pavilion
March-April 1999
James River
Meade County
Michael Fitzmaurice
Arthur Mellette
Matthews Opera House
Dakota Lean Meats
January-February 1999
Vision Quest
Dog Sledding
Lemmon
Ethel Tobin
Delighting in the Details
Peter Norbeck
Homestake
Interstates
November-December 1998
Saints
Dakota Dome
Hall of Records
Leafy Spurge
Peter Norbeck
Goosemobile
Clear Lake
September-October 1998
Cherie Ramsdell
Mickelson Trail
ERoS Data Center
Lord Grizzly
Alternative Farming
Kathleen Norris
Springfield
Fort Sisseton Kid
July-August 1998
Oscar Micheaux
Making Hay
Whitewood
Legend of Dog Butte
North Phillips Comes Back
Illustrator Charles Hargens
Lake Names
May-June 1998
Blue Cloud Abbey
Bank Robberies
Prairie Publishers
Britton
Branding
Kent Meyers
Lost Henry Arch
March-April 1998
David Humphreys Miller
outlandish Promoters
Cigar Factories
Hermosa
Lookout Mountain
James River Emergency
Northward Migration
January-February 1998
Artist Nancy Kentfield
Jewel Cave Explorers
Burial Mounds
Weather observers
Howard
Visions for '98
Browns of January
November-December 1997
Lakes in Peril
People of the North Wind
Sioux Falls' Cathedral District Canistota
Lake Cochrane
Richard Hughes
Christmas Comes to the Capitol
September-October 1997
Blasted Mountains
Newton Hills
Grass Mountain School
Andover
Statue of David
Biking in the Hills
The Good River
July-August 1997
Artist Bob Aldern
Watermelon Capital
McCrossan Boys Ranch
Corn Culture
Milbank
Cactus
Downtown Spearfish
May-June 1997
Alcester
Chalkstone Architecture
Pickups
Pioneer Politics
Rapid City Flood
Art Museums
March-April 1997
Peregrine Falcons
Blunt
Deadwood's Adams Museum
Winter on the Bad River
Mountain Lions
Prairie Pasque
January-February 1997
January Thaw
Belle Fourche
Kay Cheever's Bonsai
Visions for '97
Akaska Pot Plane
Children's Care Hospital & School
November-December 1996
Lead
Sheepherder Archie Gilfillan
Almost Forgotten Arts
King Ziegler Salvage
Saving USD's old Main
CCC Camps
September-October 1996
Famous Trees
Mining Mountains
Winner
September Snow at Custer
South Dakota Community Foundation
Pheasants
July-August 1996
Threshing Bees
oscar Howe
Madison
Galena
Vinegar Connoisseur
Harney Peak
Mary Adams
March-April 1996
Black Hills Elk
Carnegie Libraries
Philip
Paul Bunyan
Ree Heights
Sunsets
Dakota Skies
Calvin Coolidge
Elsie Meeks
January-February 1996
Wild Horse Sanctuary
Rosholt
Visions for '96
Horses of South Dakota
Brenda Bruckner
Winter Reader
November-December 1995
Downtown Rapid City
Jeweled Cave
Crow Creek Excavation
Ipswich
Elders of the Faith
Indian Women
September-October 1995
24 Hours in a Small Town
Savoy
Fall Flight
Elkton
Garrity's Orchard
July-August 1995
10th Anniversary Issue
Colorful Characters
Prettiest Places
Town Builders
Things Best Said
Covering West River
May-June 1995
Ruth Ziolkowski
Windmills
Living with Fire
Ku Klux Klan
Murder in Brule County
Gettysburg
Pierre's Baseball
March-April 1995
Railroading
BuffalFight
Artist Sheldon Hage
Land of the Ferrets
McMaster's Gas War
A Rosebud Education
January-February 1995
Pine Ridge Pictorial
Bear Butte
Visions of '95
Bloody Friday
Geddes
November-December 1994
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John Milton
Norwegian Soldier
Grain Elevators
Rochford
Howard Morrison
September-October 1994
The Oyate Trail
Sica Hollow
Sand Lake Refuge
Murdo
D.C. Booth Fish Hatchery
Twelve Mile Ranch
Stills in the Hills
July-August 1994
Post Cards
Marian Henjum
Sturgeon
Did Jesse Jump
CanAm Highway
May-June 1994
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March-April 1994
Terry Redlin
Missouri River Mystery Monster
Nicollet's Map
Ducks are Back
Dakota Water War
Political Animal
January-February 1994
Hot Springs
The News That Gives You Fits
Carrie Nation
Visions
Big Horn Sheep
Tearing Down Hutchinson County
November-December 1993
Town of Buffal
Four Corners of S.D.
McIntosh Fenn
Rural Delivery
Black Hills Stock Show
Diamond A Ranch
September-October 1993
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July-August 1993
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May-June 1993
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March-April 1993
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RodeClowns
Sioux Ridge
Ft. Pierre
When the BuffalRoamed
Badlands Ranchers
Getting tHope
January-February 1993
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November-December 1992
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September-October 1992
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Gary's Cattle War
Writers of S.D.
Mansfield
Ice Cream Makers
Linda Hasselstrom
July-August 1992
Artists Myrtle Twedt, Lynn Newman, John Gritts
Homestake Mine
Brookings
Missouri Sailing
Holstein War
May-June 1992
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March-April 1992
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Spring in Cave Hills
Our Swedish Connection
Downtown Sioux Falls
Sitting Bull's People
Freeman
Turkeys
January-February 1992
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November-December 1991
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Close Encounter
Boot and Saddle Makers
Adeline Cooper
Dona Brown's Home
State Censuses
Spearfish
Broadcaster Jim Aesoph
September-October 1991
Eureka, Wheat Capital
Mobridge Rattler Hunt
Essays on Harvest
Death of Lebeau
July-August 1991
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Dave Huebner
Palmer Eide
Dawn Amos
Alice New Holy
Bob Penn
Marty Two Bulls
Buffalo Berries
Veblen's Tobkin Family
Huron
May-June 1991
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Rushmore's 50th Anniversary
Hall of Records
Bill Groethe
Camping
Faulkton
Interstate 90
Black Hills Playhouse
Aberdeen Canteen
March-April 1991
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Roy Houck
Oscar Austad
Shrine to Music
Horses
2000 Census
January-February 1991
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Quartzite Boundary Markers
Dakota Granite
Si Howker Fight
Kyle Hammond
Ed Keene
Pleasant Valley
November-December 1990
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Wounded Knee
Blacks in S.D.
Kellog's Dogs
Dottie Howe
Christmas Decorating in Huron
September-October 1990
Korkow RodeSchool
Fly Fishing in the Hills
Hunting the Custer Wolf
Saving the St. Vincent Hotel
July-August 1990
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John Green
Dale Lamphere
Earlene Larson
Mary Groth
Adelbert Zephier
Big Stone Lake
Smokey Joe
Collectors
Irene Colling
May-June 1990
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Fred Matthews
Thunderstorms
Casey Tibbs
Callihan's Motorcar
Badlands Backpacking
Porcupine Trading Post
March-April 1990
Brookings Minnow Farm
Photos from a Ghost Town
Poet Audrae Visser
Three Toes, the Wolf
1881 Flood in Sioux Falls
January-February 1990
Photographer Don Polovich
Cowboy Activist Homer Ayres
Holdup in Aberdeen
Essays on our State of Mind
November-December 1989
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September-October 1989
Corn-husking Champs
Ethan Cheese Plant
Nordlie Organ Builders
Artist Ron Backer
Black Hills Backroads
November-December 1988
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Spirit Mound
Black Hills Justice
Hanlon Hardware
Ipswich Bombing
Centennial Alumni
Sep-October 1988
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A.M. Jackley
Dave Ploof
Funkrest
Old-time Fiddlers
China Painting
Farm Dogs
July-August 1988
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Marr's Beach
State Game Lodge
McCrory Gardens
Cultural Heritage Center
Jerseydale Farm
S.D.'s First Plane Crash
Black Hills Bluegrass
May-June 1988
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Deadwood Gambling
Willert's Tastee Treet
Porch Swings
Sigurd Anderson
Pierre's War Memorials
Kyle Evans
Small Towns
March-April 1988
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Ziegler Family
Schmeckfest
Wall Drug
Ed Martley
Sitting Bull's Homecoming
Chore Time
Cold Weather
January-February 1988
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USD President's House
Doug Hansen, Wheelwright
Dakota Artists
Blizzard of 1888
Aberdeen's Mules
James Earle Fraser
October-November 1987
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Redfield Opening Day
Oscar Thum
Frank Leahy
Tipperary
Crazy Horse Monument
Charles Kantor
August-September 1987
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Proud of the Prairie
Dakota Bread
Mission Pow Wow
Sailing South Dakota
Steam Threshing
Boston Shoe Shop
Dakota's Dinosaurs
Newell Sheep Show
June-July 1987
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Faces of the Siioux
St. Charles Hotel
Hugh Glass
Branding
Call of Dakota
Chokecherry Gold
April-May 1987
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Ed Yost
S.D. Cactus Picnic
Country Dance
Alex Johnson Hotel
Badger Clark
Prairie Repertory Theater
Forest Building
February-March 1987
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Fjord's Ice Cream
Gurney's
Stroppel Hotel
Chic Foods of Midwest
Frawley Ranch
Old Val
Hardy Campbellfgk
December-January 1987
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Whimsy of Winter
Academy Poor House
Joel Strasser
Jim Erickson
Bombed in a Dakota Cornfield
October-November 1986
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Great Chicken Caper
Tom Berry
Football Playoffs
United Nations
James "Death Valley" Scott
Golden Horns
August-September 1986
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Dakota Graveyards
Harold Shunk
Yankton
Gladys Pyle
Bed & Breakfasts
Badlands
June-July 1986
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Pipestone
Harvey Dunn
Land of God
The Strip
Lewis Beckwith
Tracklayer and the Town
April-May 1986
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Shrine to Music
Cramer-Kenyon Home
Passion Play
Bob Winter
Morel Mushrooms
The Outside of a Horse
February-March 1986
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Charley Collins
Mountain Goats
Earl Sande
Center for Western Studies
Pasque Flowers
Search for the True Midwest
Black Hills Gunfight
December-January 1985-86
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Stratobowl Flight
James River
John Novotny
Rodeo Bulls
Hot Springs
Yuletide Box
Christmas Rememberance
October-November 1985
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Boxelders
Clyde Ice
Kones Korner
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Flom Family
Pheasant Hunt
Everett Comstock
Red Stangland
August-September 1985
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Mellette Mansion
REA
Bear Butte
George Prisbe
Corn Palace
June-July 1985
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Academy
Amanda Clement
Emil Loriks
Great Plains Zoo
Spearfish
Opera House
Indian Names
AME Church
April-May 1985
- Premiere Issue
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Depression
Changing Sioux Falls' Name
Cattleman's Homecoming
Antiques
Black Hills Fishing
S.D. Sports Hall of Fame