Download and read this award-winning article, the first in a series of SDSHS Press Ebook Shorts.

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A fascinating and intimate account of a Rapid City flood survivor's subsequent life, and the journey she took to find personal peace and understanding.

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Cowboy letters from South Dakota's open range

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Cowboy life, South Dakota style

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Classic account of the Black Hills gold rush

Watson Parker weaves a delightful and authoritative guide out of the chaotic and complex history of early settlement and discovery.

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"A neat, little volume on the discovery, exploration, and development of the Black Hills of South Dakota."—Nebraska History

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Memoir of the last man to serve Wild Bill Hickok a drink

Hard Knocks captures the squalor and excitement of the frontier West and exudes the gore and glory of those early days. Sam Young left home at fourteen to seek out the West he had read about in dime novels. His incredible story is told here.

Read Michael Lawson's award-winning essay in which he examines the issues surrounding land on American Indian reservations in South Dakota.

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A new view of Laura Ingalls Wilder's life and work

Laura Ingalls Wilder scholar William T. Anderson's award-winning article on the beginning of the famous author's writing career

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Preserving the place that is South Dakota, one building at a time

Allegory, Populism, and L. Frank Baum

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Unheralded but vital figure in the development of the Black Hills

"This is an excellent addition to any Western history collection, whether personal or library."—D. Whelan, www.amazon.com

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Inside the famous chief's camp at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory

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The story of Bill Welsh and the national-record-setting Claremont Honkers six-man football team of the 1940s and 1950s

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Living with nature, South Dakota style

Inspired by Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Annie Dillard, Jerry Wilson’s eco-memoir Waiting for Coyote’s Call covers twenty-five years of trying to live life leaving as small an environmental footprint as possible. Wilson encourages readers to think about their place in nature through his family’s quest to live equably with the natural world on 160 acres of prairie and woodland near the Missouri River in South Dakota.

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Myths surrounding two Wild West legends