History

Carry Nation’s South Dakota Crusade


The temperance leader brought her “hatchetation” here in 1909.

Do The Job And Come Back


A Vietnam vet remembers his service.

The Raider from Belle Fourche

November 11, 2015
In 1942, Don Smith helped score a direct hit on Japanese morale.

Forbidden Culture


Reservation dance halls were a safe harbor for Native American culture during seven decades of suppression.

The Victim’s Daughter


77 years after her father's murder, Nora Conheeney Ryan returned to the Black Hills.

Gigi Hickey holds the 105 mm Howitzer canister that housed the Nazi banner for nearly 70 years.

The Spoils and Sorrows of War

July 29, 2015
A Wessington Springs attic held a piece of World War II history for nearly 70 years.

Boss Cowman’s Own Words


Legendary cattleman Ed Lemmon tells his own stories, even though he’s been dead 70 years.

Searching for the White Mule


Prohibition produced the most cunning, reckless and sometimes dangerous entrepreneurs in our state's history.

When Charlie Collins started the Black Hills Champion in Central City in 1877, this illustration of the colorful character was published in the noted Frank Leslie s Illustrated Weekly. Collins is the bald fellow, with arms folded, near the doorway.

A Toast to Charlie Collins


Remember this Irish dreamer on St. Patrick’s Day.

The Disappearance of Fred Fyle


Geddes’ much-loved town doctor vanished in the winter of 1923.

Phyllis Dolan Justice and her husband, Clarence, were longtime publishers of the Grant County Review, which remained in Phyllis family for 102 years.

Milbank’s Newspaper Family


For nearly a century, there was only one.

A Depression Christmas

December 23, 2014
Sometimes the best celebrations happen in the bleakest of times.

The Mammoth Man


Remembering Larry Agenbroad, leader of Hot Springs’ Mammoth Site.

The Cattleman's Blizzard


Remembering the devastating Winter Storm Atlas, one year later. Photo by Rachel Reinhold

Jesse James Was Here. We Think.

August 5, 2014
There are Big Foot sightings. UFO sightings. And we still get new reports of Jesse James sightings in our part of the Old West.

Pitching To Bill Prunty


Here’s what happened when a teenager faced a legendary slugger. Photo by Christian Begeman

Grace Balloch’s Books

July 2, 2014
One woman’s gift became the seed for Spearfish’s public library.

The Woman Behind the Mountain


Ruth Ziolkowski gently, but firmly, shepherded the Crazy Horse carving.

Sigurd Anderson served as state Attorney General, governor and was a member of the Federal Trade Commission.

The Judge


Sigurd Anderson was a major part of South Dakota government for half a century.

While in South Dakota, Silent Cal took a ride in a lumber wagon.

A Presidential Summer


Calvin Coolidge’s three-week vacation in the Black Hills became a three-month retreat from Washington.

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