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History

Ghost Town Friends

A Hill City historian and his boyhood pal brought the Black Hills’ past back to life.

De Smet's first Thanksgiving inspired a lesson in gratitude that still resonates today.

Mitchell native Jack Thurman has a place in Iwo Jima history.

Warden G. Norton Jameson brought death by electrocution to the South Dakota State Penitentiary.

When Scotty Philip's buffalo Pierre met a Mexican bull in the ring, the Juarez fighter didn't stand a chance against the monarch of the plains.

From 1910 to 1947, the Odd Fellows Home provided "a good place, a good home and good times" to South Dakota orphans.

Herder Harold Fritzel's hungry bovines were barred from one famous De Smet garden.

The Days of '76 character's fast draw had humorously unfortunate results for his Black Hills neighbors.

South Dakota's first car clattered through Woonsocket 128 years ago.

An ex-newspaper boy from Pierre remembers the day he got a helping hand from a hero.

The Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum brought America's pastime to the Hub City.

Ice fishermen helped catch the Walworth County "pot plane" in 1980.

Remembering Christmas time with the Mount Rushmore family.

Following the trail of a Beadle County sheriff turned gangster.

An Aberdeen priest was the father of the initiative and referendum process that gave us term limits, dove hunting and daylight savings time.

Third-generation rancher Johnny Bown sent this account of Hyde County’s devastating prairie fire to his mother-in-law in St. Louis 64 years ago.

Nobody deserves more credit for initiating the Sturgis Rally than Pearl Hoel.

Here's what happened in 1881 when the Big Sioux River left its banks.

Redrawing our borders would have left us without the Badlands, Black Hills and Mount Rushmore.

South Dakota nearly lost our beloved poet's first Black Hills cabin.

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