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The Road Less Traveled
... and Crocker before arriving in the smallest town on our journey. Just five people live in Crandall, but an old gas station and its summertime music festivals has brought over 3,000 people to town since Dave Swain bought it in 2005. The Pumps was a full-service Standard station opened in 1934 to serve townspeople and passers by on Highway 20, which once ran right past the station (today the road is gravel, ...
Galena’s Ghosts
... counterpart of Lead’s George Hearst, who spared no expense in developing Homestake Mine so that it became the Western Hemisphere’s biggest gold producer. Into Galena rode wealthy Colonel J. S. Davey. He first leased, and then bought, the Sitting Bull and built a great mine mill. However, Davey quickly fell into a legal dispute with the neighboring Richmond Mine operators. Richmond owners believed ...
Love for the Game
... him the dean of managers in the state.
Tulson has good company. Of approximately 75 managers, he is one of five with 30 years of experience leading an amateur baseball team.
The Canova Gang’s Dave Gassman and Kirk Sorensen of the Vermillion Red Sox are each in their 37th seasons. Paul Martin of the Akron (Iowa) Rebels and Fred Obermeier of Clark are each at 33. The Dell Rapids Mudcats’ Jim ...
Will We Change?
... beef processing plant is extremely difficult because of possible contamination issues.
Then in 2004, Howard welcomed Scott Lively to the state as he was searching for a home for an organic beef company. Dave Clarke had a building, just off Highway 34, that could be modified and expanded to serve as a state of the art processing plant. Things came together so quickly that in 2005 the Wall Street Journal featured ...
Winter Hike On Black Elk Peak
... haven’t been seen on Black Elk Peak in modern times (Mount Rushmore A.D.), but a young male was hit by a car near Sturgis two years ago and another was caught in a trap in Harding County.
Dave Pickford, a ranger with the Black Hills National Forest’s Hell Canyon District, says lions have been spotted. Sightings are rare, but believable to our friends back down the mountain.
Deer, elk, ...
Piggin’ Out On Pork
... complement to spicy, bold seasonings. Its robust taste stands up to strong flavors rather than being eclipsed.”
“Pork is a menu maker, because you can go so many ways with it,” confirms Dave Casper, owner of Casper’s restaurant in Brookings.
Casper’s menu includes Pork Cacciatore, Pork Loin Cutlets, Twin Chops, Pork Saltimbocca, Smoked Chops and Pork Citron. Pork Robert is a ...
Seeing South Dakota’s Promise and Possibilities
August 13, 2014
... painted many murals and signs around the Hutchinson County town. Harris welcomes visitors to his downtown studio.
And we found that there is more to do in Wall than stopping by Wall Drug for donuts. Mayor Dave Hahn informed us that the town has the only U.S. Forest Service Visitor's Center in the United States. The site seeks to educate visitors on national grasslands and has many hands-on learning exhibits.
It's ...
The Sales Secrets of Oscar Austad
... order business was under way. When he left his final insurance job in 1963, he figured his customers would buy enough golf balls to feed the kids. Today he employs two of those kids and 460 other people.
Dave is president of the company. Under his leadership, the mail order business has expanded internationally and two retail stores were recently opened at Minneapolis. A third store is located in Sioux Falls.
Randy, ...
Grill Your Next Catch
... Magazine. To order a copy or to subscribe, call 800-456-5117.
Fish will never replace steaks and burgers on South Dakota barbecue grills, but when we talked to him in 1988, Sioux Falls restauranteur Dave Thompson suggested that more people charbroil the fish they catch in our rivers and lakes.
Thompson learned about barbecuing fresh fish on trips he made to the coasts. He said that considering ...
Pouring It On
September 13, 2013
Dave Stevens Concrete showed up early this morning to lay the floor for South Dakota Magazine's new library and conference space. It's a beautiful day to watch them work. Photos by Bernie Hunhoff.
Winner! Whereizzit in South Dakota?
June 22, 2013
We have a winner in our July Whereizzit in South Dakota contest! We drew Shirley Eisnach's name at random from the list of correct guesses. Aerial photograph Dave Tunge spotted this wacipi circle south of Oahe Dam.
Thanks to everyone who guessed. Watch for another Whereizzit contest in our Sept/Oct 2013 issue!
We Gave One the Chair
... George Sitts was executed on April 8, 1947 in Sioux Falls. Sitts had escaped from a Minnesota jail where he was serving a life sentence for killing a liquor store clerk. He killed Butte County Sheriff Dave Malcolm and State Criminal Agent Thomas Matthews near Spearfish in 1946 while resisting arrest.
Sitts was the fourth man sentenced to electrocution in South Dakota, but the only one whose sentence wasn’t ...
Do You Remember Opening Day?
October 11, 2012
... were cheap and pheasants plentiful. I could take a box of shells out and shoot all 25 of them — sometimes all at the same pheasant — in an hour or two.
We had a sharpshooter in the family. Dave had a double barrel 12 gauge, and could generally get his three-bird limit without leaving the end rows. Maybe that's why he was county sheriff for 32 years and I'm still trying to hit the right key on ...
An Extreme Missouri River Challenge
July 25, 2012
By Laura Johnson
An afternoon spent tubing, kayaking or water skiing on the Missouri River is adventure enough for most people, but England’s Dave Cornthwaite isn’t most people. He has skateboarded across Australia and sailed from Mexico to Honolulu, and now his adventuring is bringing him to South Dakota.
Cornthwaite’s next expedition ...
Farewell, Favorite Band
July 20, 2012
... CD release event filled with balloons, colored lights, confetti, and even a leaf blower. Oh, and the music was good, too. Brothers Isaac and Eli Show, and their core members Tim Evenson, Brent Hardie, Dave Lethcoe, Tory Stolen, Logan Borchardt and Tony Helland played their folk pop hearts out with several special guests. They ended with Eli belting out a spirited rendition of the Jackson 5’s “I ...
Winner! Whereizzit in South Dakota?
... June 1, we will randomly select a winner from the correct answers. The winner will receive a collection of South Dakota Magazine products and a 16"x20" print of his/her choice from photographer Dave Tunge of Dakota Aerials.
WE HAVE A WINNER!
A lot of you recognized this spot — it's the Spirit of the Circle monument located near Big Bend Dam and Fort Thompson. Sadly, there can ...
Joe Foss Remembered
By Dave Beckwith
For a 9-year-old newspaper boy in Pierre, balancing 50 to 100 papers on a bike was a challenge. One day in 1956 I hit a rut and crashed into the pavement. Newspapers scattered across the highway. ...
March/April 1994
... what strange creatures lurk beneath the surface of the Mighty Mo.
Terry Redlin: Watertown's artist-in-residence brings his dream back home. [read more]
Political Animal: Argus Leader reporter Dave Kranz takes South Dakota's political pulse.
The Oahe Project: A nice idea that ended in a 'civil war.'
Survivor's School: The Takini School brings adults and children together for a unique ...
July/August 1991
... box camera to photograph her father while he was fishing at Crow Lake in Jerauld county in 1945. Many years later she painted this picture.
Artists of South Dakota: Dave Huebner, potter Palmer Eide, sculptor Dawn Amos, quilter Alice New Holy, quillwork Bob Penn, painter ...
November/December 1990
... recreation of Cedar Pass in the Badlands of southwestern South Dakota.
Wounded Knee: This issue is devoted to Wounded Knee, 100 years later.
When Hope Was Extinguished: Historian Dave Walter writes of the events which led to the massacre at Wounded Knee.
A Survivor's Account: Dewey Beard was severely wounded at Wounded Knee, but he lived to tell the story of what transpired.
Hoping ...
