All Signs Point to Wall Drug
Driving through South Dakota, visitors see hundreds of signs pointing to Wall Drug. There are signs all over...
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The Ultimate Black Hills Bucket List
The Black Hills has a seemingly endless number of hiking trails, festivals, iconic restaurants, and unique wildlife, so...
The Thoen Stone
While the Custer Expedition of 1874 confirmed the presence of gold and shared the finding with the world, there are...
The Story of Deadwood
Few frontier towns conjure up romantic, rough-and-tumble Old West images like Deadwood. The discovery of gold in French...
The Story of Custer
When Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer set out from Fort Abraham Lincoln (present-day Bismarck, North Dakota) in 1874 with over...
Gold Mining in the Black Hills
The Black Hills gold rush and the consequent local mining industry began with the Custer Expedition of 1874....
1972 Rapid City – Black Hills Flood
Those of us who lived through that horrible night will never forget—and we hope that others will be...
Native American Culture and the Black Hills 1865-1873
Superficial attempts were made by the U.S. government to get Indians to sign another treaty in 1865, meanwhile...
Native American Culture and the Black Hills 1750-1865
In 1775-76, an Oglala war party traveling west from the Missouri River area came to the Black Hills....