South Dakota History Vol. 40 No. 2

Robert M. Utley

Frank H. Goodyear III

Kingsley M. Bray

South Dakota State Historical Society

Numerous illustrations enhance this memorial tribute to George Speaker Mickelson, the only South Dakota governor to lose his life while in office. James O. Hansen recalls the accomplishments of the Mickelson administration as well as the tragic accident that took the lives of the governor and seven South Dakota men.

Creating the Future for South Dakota: The Mickelson Legacy, 1987-1993

James O. Hansen

Philip's tales emphasize the simple pleasures and hard work of cowboy life. His writing details the cowboy's day-to-day work, from from branding and roping to navigating across the plains by stars and buttes as the great open range slowly closes up.

Cowboy Life: The Letters of George Philip

Biographies & Memoirs

George Philip

Regional U.S.

In Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life, Pamela Smith Hill delves into the complex and often fascinating relationships Wilder formed throughout her life that led to the writing of her classic Little House series. Using Wilder's stories, personal correspondence, a previously unpublished autobiography, and experiences in South Dakota, Hill has produced a historical-literary biography of the famous and much-loved author. Following the course of Wilder's life, and her real family's journey west, Hill provides a context both familial and literary, for Wilder's writing career. 
Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life is the first book in the South Dakota Biography Series, which highlights some of the state's most famous residents. Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends and Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman are also a part of this series. More information about this series can be found on the South Dakota Historical Society Press website.

Laura Ingalls Wilder: A Writer's Life (South Dakota Biography Series)

Pamela Smith Hill

Children's Books

color photographs, bibliography, glossary, index, appendix

Along the Grapevine Trail: Vineyards and Wineries in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Nebraska

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Starley Talbott

Beverages & Wine

Beyond Mount Rushmore: Other Black Hills Faces

Mary A. Kopco

History

Pickup trucks and eagles, yellow school buses and painted horses, Mother Earth and Sister Meadowlark all join together to greet the dawn. They marvel at the colours and sounds, smells and memories that dawn creates. Animals and humans alike turn their faces upwards and gaze as the sun makes its daily journey from horizon to horizon. Dawn is a time to celebrate with a smiling heart, to start a new day in the right way, excited for what might come. Birds sing and dance, children rush to learn, dewdrops glisten from leaves, and gradually the sun warms us. Each time the sun starts a new circle, we can start again as well. All these things are part of the Lakota way, a means of living in balance. S. D. Nelson offers young readers wonder and happiness as a better way of appreciating their culture and surroundings. He draws inspiration from traditional stories to create Greet the Dawn . His artwork fuses elements of modern with traditional. Above all, he urges each of us to seize the opportunity that dawn offers each day.

Greet the Dawn: The Lakota Way

S.D. Nelson

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Rattlesnakes and ornery horses, the dreaded Texas Itch, midnight rambles in graveyards, trips to Mexico, and hard riding on the last open range: George Philip recounts all these adventures and more with wit and humour. George Phillip arrived in South Dakota from Scotland in 1899. For the next four years, he rode as a cowboy for his uncle's L-7 cattle outfit during the heyday of the last open range. But the cowboy era was a brief one, and in 1903 Philip turned in his string of horses and hung up his saddle to enter law school in Michigan. In these candid letters, Philip provides fascinating insights into the development of the West and of South Dakota. His writing details the cowboy's day-to-day work, from branding and roping to navigating across the palins by stars and buttes, as the great open ranges slowly closed up.

Cowboy Life the Letters of George Philip

George Philip,Cathie Draine,Mick Harrison

The discovery of an old trunk leads to a story of love, opportunity, and yearning set during the carving of Mount Rushmore. From March to September of 1940, Arthur Cerasani, a sculptor and artist from Rochester, New York, worked on Mount Rushmore, while his family remained over fifteen hundred miles away. Over this vast distance, he and his wife, Mary, stayed connected through letters. Their daily correspondence reveals the trials of carving sixty-foot heads on a mountain top and highlights the strength of the human spirit. Despite isolation, spring blizzards, summer heat, and the unpredictable moods and fortunes of master sculptor Gutzon Borglum, Arthur Cerasani manages to connect with the carvers of the great monument and grow as an artist. In telling his father s experience, Richard Cerasani gives readers the tale of many workers on the mountain, some separated from family, all hoping for a future. Using letters and photographs, he shows the human side of the monumental struggle to create Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

Love Letters from Mount Rushmore: The Story of a Marriage, a Monument, and a Moment in History

Richard Cerasani

Historical

South Dakota is often thought of as a conservative or red state, but its political culture is much more variegated and unpredictable than such color-coded references might imply. The state contains its own geographic variations and political subcultures. The first volume illustrated the complex nature of state politics and cyclical change over time, and this new group of essays concentrates on some of the unpredictability and contradictoriness of the state and its citizens. The editors have brought together ten essays on a diverse number of topics to consider the state's underlying political culture. Contributors deliberate over such topics as the influence of political organizations, conservatism, patriotism, leadership, local and national political culture, people's movements, and cowboy politics in an effort to develop a fuller sense of where South Dakota fits into the growing study of modern political culture.

The Plains Political Tradition: Essays on South Dakota Political Culture, Volume 2

Americas

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