Calamity Jane: Legend or Myth?
Few women in Black Hills history are as enigmatic as Calamity Jane. Stories of her exploits abound; many of which are her own invention.
Cowboy Culture
A Night at Central States Fair
Rapid City’s Central States Fair is held from August 17 through 26 this year at the fairgrounds, and...
Our State Sport
This year, break your family out of the city routine for an All-American cowboy experience while you are...
A Brief History of South Dakota
From the earliest accounts (including the Kiowa, Kiowa-Apache, Arikara, Arapaho, Mandans, and the Hidatsa), to later occupants like...
Nat Love – The Real Deadwood Dick
It is often hard in history to separate fact from fiction, and the dime novel version of a...
The History of the Hills
A Brief History of the Black Hills from 1800 The following is by no means a comprehensive story...
Wyatt Earp in the Early Black Hills
Wyatt Earp has been popularized as the fearless frontier lawman of the Kansas cow towns, and as the...
James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok
James Butler Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois, on May 27, 1837. As a boy in rural...
Seth Bullock
If the Black Hills of the late 1800s and first decades of the 1900s ever had “ a man for...
Poker Alice Tubbs
Alice Ivers was born on February 17, 1853, in Devonshire, England. She and her family moved to Virginia...