Chief Red Cloud
We do not know the exact birth date of this famed Oglala Lakota Sioux leader, but he was likely born...
Culture
Minuteman Missile National Historic Site
Even South Dakota played its part in the Cold War by building the Minuteman Missile Site. Operating from...
The Story of George Crook
Crook was born into a farm family on September 8, 1828, near Taylorsville, Ohio, not far from Dayton....
Lewis and Clark Expedition
2004 marked the two hundredth anniversary of one of the more influential explorations in the history of the...
Laura Ingalls Wilder
In September of 1974, NBC Television introduced America to the Ingalls family, a pioneer family that had made...
Jack McCall & The Murder of Wild Bill Hickok
Historical Black Hills characters, both factual and fictional, have taken center stage in the successful HBO series “DEADWOOD”....
The Mammoth Site
For centuries the bones lay buried until discovered by chance in 1974. While excavating for a housing development,...
Dr. Valentine McGillycuddy
In spite of a name that seems more whimsical than serious, the life and accomplishments of Valentine Trant...
1874 Custer Expedition to the Black Hills
The struggle for control of the Black Hills region is a story in itself. If one were to pick a...
Captain Jack Crawford
Few characters in Black Hills history were ever as flamboyant, or as poetic, as John Wallace “Jack” Crawford. Crawford was...