The Story of George Crook
Crook was born into a farm family on September 8, 1828, near Taylorsville, Ohio, not far from Dayton....
History
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...
Jedediah Smith, the Bear, and the Black Hills
Jedediah S. Smith (1799-1831), trapper, fur trader, and explorer in the American West, was one of the most...
The Search for Lame Johnny’s Lost Treasure
There’s gold in them thar hills… no, really! When researching the history of the Black Hills during the...
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”....
Hearst Legacy in the Black Hills
While the Hearst name is widely associated with publishing today, the Hearst influence on mining in the Black Hills is...
Gutzon Borglum
“I want, somewhere in America on or near the Rockies, the backbone of the Continent, so far removed...
The Mammoth Site
For centuries the bones lay buried until discovered by chance in 1974. While excavating for a housing development,...
Fort Meade
Historically the Black Hills region was home to Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Lakota Sioux Indian tribes. Gold prospecting and settlement of this...