Black Hills Wildlife Photography
The Black Hills area is one of the most beautiful and varied ecosystems in the world. It goes from prairie...
Town/Community History
The Story of Ellsworth Air Force Base
The military presence in western South Dakota dates back to 1942, when Rapid City Army Air Base (AAB)...
Devils Tower National Monument
Located on the northwestern edge of the Black Hills, Devils Tower Rises 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River...
A Good Bet – Deadwood Gaming
At high noon on November 1, 1989, legalized gambling was reintroduced in Deadwood. The historic and economic transformation of...
The History of the Hills
A Brief History of the Black Hills from 1800 The following is by no means a comprehensive story...
A.W. Merrick
Unfortunately, there is not much information available about Deadwood’s first newspaperman Albert W. Merrick (portrayed by Jeffrey Jones...
James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok
James Butler Hickok was born in Troy Grove, Illinois, on May 27, 1837. As a boy in rural...
The Revenant: Fact or Fiction?
Released in 2015, The Revenant stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Hugh Glass, a frontiersman who was mauled by a...
Sol Star
Historical Black Hills characters, both factual and fictional, have taken center stage in the successful HBO series “DEADWOOD.”...
Seth Bullock
If the Black Hills of the late 1800s and first decades of the 1900s ever had “ a man for...