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Pierre, SD: South Dakota State Historical Society Press. ISBN 0-9715171-3-4. Schwieder, Dorothy Hubbard. Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains (2003) Memoir plus history of Presho, South Dakota, 1905 to the 1950s; a primary source. details; Thompson, Harry F., ed. (2009). A New South Dakota History (Second ed.).
Rhoda Alice Gossage (née Bower; November 4, 1861 – June 9, 1929) was an American newspaper editor, journalist, and activist. Often referred to as the "Mother of Rapid City ", [1] she was inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1934 and the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1978. She was one of, if not the, first newspaperwomen in ...
The South Dakota State Historical Society, after an initial meeting in April, was founded on May 7, 1862 as the Old Settlers Association of Dakota Territory. [2] It was renamed the Historical Society of Dakota in 1863 and the State Historical Society of South Dakota in 1890, months after the state was admitted to the union.
1762. The Treaty of Fontainebleau cedes the French colony of La Louisiane, including South Dakota land, to Spain. 1764-1803. South Dakota land is part of the Spanish (though predominantly Francophone) district of Alta Luisiana. 1775. Oglala Tetons discover Black Hills and soon afterward drive Kiowas from that region.
Dakota Territory was organized on March 2, 1861; [1] on November 2, 1889, it was split into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota. [2] The Constitution of South Dakota originally provided for the election of a governor and lieutenant governor every two years with no limits. A law passed in 1947 prohibited parties from nominating someone ...
The Wounded Knee Massacre, also known as the Battle of Wounded Knee, was the massacre of nearly three hundred Lakota people by soldiers of the United States Army.The massacre, part of what the U.S. military called the Pine Ridge Campaign, [5] occurred on December 29, 1890, [6] near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota ...
sdstate.edu. South Dakota State University (SDSU or SD State) is a public land-grant research university in Brookings, South Dakota. Founded in 1881, it is the state's largest university and is the second oldest continually operating university in the state, trailing the University of South Dakota which was founded in 1862. [6]
Bibliography of South Dakota history. Herb Conn dangled from the faces on Mount Rushmore each fall to do maintenance work. Circa 1961 to 1972. The following works deal with the cultural, political, economic, military, biographical and geologic history of pre-territorial South Dakota, the southern part of Dakota Territory and the State of South ...