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  • Bighorn Visions
  • Dancing with Welk
  • The Savior of Deadwood
  • Pioneer Girl: The Revised Texts
  • Dakota
  • The Plains Political Tradition
  • A Dust Bowl Book of Days, 1932
  • A Place for Harvest
  • George Armstrong Custer
  • The Voice of Liberty
    • Statue of Liberty Cube
  • Charlie Russell and the Gnomes
  • Abraham Lincoln
    • Abraham Lincoln_4-12-22_optimized for iPad.epub
  • Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane
    • Wild Bill and Calamity Jane.wmv
    • Mitchell Daily Republic Article on Wild Bill and Calamity Jane.pdf
    • Library Thing Review of Wild Bill and Calamity Jane.pdf
    • Wild Bill & Calamity Jane reader's guide.pdf
    • kansas review.pdf
    • Great Plains Quarterly Wild Bill review.pdf
  • Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • chapter 1.pdf
    • lion and the unicorn review.pdf
    • LIW reader's guide fw.pdf
  • Tatanka and the Lakota People
  • History of South Dakota
  • Red Cloud
  • Literary Apprenticeship of Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • North of Twelfth Street
  • Sitting Bull, Prisoner of War
    • Kansas_History_review_200.pdf
  • The Discontented Gopher
  • Peter Norbeck
  • County Capitols
  • Love Letters from Mount Rushmore: The Story of a Marriage, a Monument, and a Moment in History
  • Circling Back Home
  • Infinite West
    • Interview with Fraser Harrison May 2012.pdf
  • Early Churches in South Dakota
  • A New Deal for South Dakota
  • Picturing the Past
  • Six
    • Six - excerpt.pdf
    • Interview_with_Marc_Rasmussen_071211.wma
    • NH Spring 2012 Book Review of SIX.pdf
    • Annals of Iowa review.pdf
  • Small-town Boy, Small-town Girl
    • Small-town Boy Small-town Girl-final press release 121609 one page.pdf
    • teaser.pdf
    • Small-town Boy Small-town Girl-final press release 121609 one page.doc
    • fowler interview 02.1.1.wma
    • ReedCityreview librarything 031510.pdf
    • Nebraska History Spring 2011 Review of Small-town Boy.pdf
  • The Plains Political Tradition
  • After Populism
  • American Ace
  • Pioneer Girl
  • Pioneer Girl Perspectives
  • Born Criminal
  • Abraham Lincoln_4-12-22_optimized for iPad.epub
  • Natives of a Dry Place
  • The Raccoon and the Bee Tree
    • Bloomsbury Review review.pdf
    • Mom's Choice award press release 020510.pdf
  • Forgotten Lives
  • Waiting for Coyote's Call
    • Short promo video for Waiting for Coyote's Call.wmv
    • jerry wilson interview part 1.wma
    • jerry wilson interview part 2.wma
    • reader's guide L.pdf
    • Waiting for Coyote's Call press release 090408.pdf
    • Yankton P&D Coyote's Call Article.pdf
    • Jerry Wilson presents at SD CHC part 1.wmv
    • Jerry Wilson presents at SD CHC part 2.wmv
    • Jerry Wilson presents at SD CHC part 3.wmv
    • Waiting for the Coyote review from Library Thing.pdf
    • roundup review.pdf
    • chapter 3.pdf
    • sd mag review.pdf
    • SD Mag Victor piece.pdf
    • Great Plains Quarterly review.pdf
    • Nebraska_History_review.pdf
  • Fort Randall on the Missouri, 1856-1892
  • George McGovern
  • Dancing with Colonels
  • A South Dakota Rendezvous
  • The South Dakota State Capitol
  • "All Guns Fired at One Time"
  • Spotted Tail: Warrior and Statesman
  • Come into the Water
    • Interview_with_Merlyn_Magner_022411.wma
    • Come_into_the_Water_excerpt.pdf
    • Book tour podcast with Merlyn Magner 070511.wma
  • Dear Unforgettable Brother
  • The Sioux in South Dakota History
  • Fort Union and Fort William
  • Sioux Women
  • The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood
  • Equality at the Ballot Box: Votes for Women on the Northern Great Plains
  • Glorious Fourth of July
  • Umpire in a Skirt
  • Dammed Indians Revisited
  • Without Reservation
  • The Frontier Army
  • The First Strike: Doolittle Raider Don Smith
  • Greet the Dawn
  • Gold, Gals, Guns, Guts
  • Gabriel Renville
  • Muskrat and Skunk / Sinkpe na Maka
  • The Mystery of the Pheasants
    • Midwest Book Review 111412.pdf
    • SD Mag review.pdf
  • Hugh Glass
  • Paul Goble, Storyteller
    • "Paul Goble, Storyteller": Addendum, April 2017
  • Fort Tecumseh and Fort Pierre Chouteau
  • The Monster Who Ate the State
  • Gold Rush
    • GoldRushSample.epub
    • GoldRushSample.mobi
  • Hard Knocks
    • Hard Knocks intro.pdf
  • Gold in the Black Hills
  • Sitting Bull Surrender Census
    • North_Dakota_History_review.pdf
  • The Mystery of the Maize
  • Dance in a Buffalo Skull
  • Walking Along
  • Plains Political Tradition
    • Historical_Musings_The Contours_of_South_Dakota_Political_Culture.pdf
    • SD_Mag_review.pdf
    • JOW review.pdf
    • Nebraska History Book Reviews - Winter 2012-2.pdf
  • Politics of Oz
  • Plains Political Tradition
  • Principle over Party
  • Transformation and Continuity in Lakota Culture
  • Cowboy Life
    • excerpt from chapter one.doc
    • reader's guide for web.pdf
    • Chapter 16.pdf
    • CowboyLifeSample.epub
    • CowboyLifeSample.mobi
    • Capital_Journal_article_072011a.pdf
  • Indian Heirship Lands
  • Tasunka
  • Controlled Recklessness
  • The Jumping-Off Place
  • Ho! for the Black Hills
    • Minneota History review-2.pdf
    • Nebraska History review.pdf
    • South_Dakota_Magazine_review.pdf
    • Kansas_History_review_Vol35_No3.pdf
    • Mining_History_News_review_Fall_2012.pdf
  • Seth Bullock
    • Wolff Interview.pdf
    • excerpt from chapter 3.pdf
    • Seth Bullock press release 072709.pdf
    • Seth Bullock Reader's Guide for web.pdf
    • SD History 39 3 review.pdf
    • Bullock review Wild West History Assoc Journal October 2009.pdf
    • SDMag NovDec09.pdf
    • WHQ review.pdf
    • North_Dakota_History_review.pdf
  • Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction
  • Sacajawea
  • Bob Marshall
  • Football for Fun
  • Unrepentant Dakota Woman
  • Dick Termes
  • Little Pasture on the Prairie
  • A Phantom Storm
    • A Phantom Storm_LBHA Noyes review.pdf
  • Georgia Jipp
  • Black Hills History Tours, Vol. 1: The Gold Rush
  • Rose Lane Says
    • Rose Wilder Lane Audio 1
    • Rose Wilder Lane Audio 2
  • Giants in the Earth
  • A Legislature of Citizens
  • Black Hills History Tours, Vol. 2: The Gateway to the Hills
  • Wilder Weather
  • Badger Clark: Poetry Wrangler
  • Halhata na Thathanka / Magpie and Buffalo
  • The White River Badlands
  • Special Places, Sacred Circles
  • Black Hills History Tours, Vol. 3: On the Narrow Gauge and Beyond
  • This Far Country
• Journal
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• News & Events
  • Events
    • BOOK SIGNING & RECEPTION | SD Nelson & Paul Goble Exhibits Closing
    • Women's Suffrage on the Northern Great Plains Symposium
    • AUTHOR EVENT | Preservation Thursdays: Kelly Kirk
    • A Christmas Collection: Songs and Stories to Celebrate the Season
    • North Dakota Book Festival
    • OLLI Program | The Near Prospect of the Enfranchisement: The 1890 South Dakota Vote on Woman Suffrage and Indian Suffrage
    • BookExpo America, 2017
    • South Dakota State Historical Society 2017 History Conference
    • Author Meet & Greet at Prairie Pages in Pierre
    • Book Signing at Mitzi's Books in Rapid City
    • Book Signing and Talk by Author Angelica Carpenter
    • AUTHOR EVENT: "A Dust Bowl Book of Days, 1932"
    • VIRTUAL AUTHOR TALK: Women's Vote 100 Centennial with Angelica Shirley Carpenter
    • West River History Conference
    • Finding Grace: The Lost Ingalls Sister and the End of the Frontier
    • 50th Annual Dakota Conference
    • Fourth Annual Midwestern History Conference
    • 58th Annual Western History Association Conference
    • SD Festival of Books
    • Laura Ingalls Wilder's 151st Birthday
    • Independent Bookstore Day
    • Organization of American Historians Annual Meeting
    • Heartland Fall Forum
    • 38th Annual Artists of the Plains Art Show & Sale
    • AUTHOR EVENT: Caroline Fraser on Laura Ingalls Wilder
    • History and Heritage Book Club
    • MEETUP & EXHIBITION | Northern Great Plains History Conference
    • MEETUP & EXHIBITION | South Dakota Library Association Conference
    • MEETUP & EXHIBITION | South Dakota Festival of Books
    • MEETUP & EXHIBITION | Western History Association Conference
    • AUTHOR EVENT | A Century Celebration: Women's Suffrage in South Dakota, 1868-1918
    • AUTHOR EVENT | A Century Celebration: Women's Suffrage in South Dakota, 1868-1918
    • AUTHOR LUNCHEON | Angelica Shirley Carpenter Radical Suffragette, The story of Matilda Joslyn Gage
    • AUTHOR EVENT | Interview with City Council Member Greg Morena, great-great-great grandson of Matilda Joslyn Gage
    • AUTHOR EVENT | “Born Criminal” program with Caitlin Masters as Matilda Joslyn Gage
    • AUTHOR LUNCHEON | Women’s Suffrage Centennial with Angelic Shirley Carpenter
    • AUTHOR EVENT | Centennial Program: “Meet Matilda Joslyn Gage”
    • AUTHOR WORKSHOP | Biography Writing: Little Bits of a Puzzle
    • AUTHOR EVENT: "Born Criminal" with Angelica Shirley Carpenter
    • AUTHOR EVENT | "Women's Achievement Over Time" with Angelica Shirley Carpenter
    • AUTHOR EVENT | Angelica Shirley Carpenter and "Born Criminal"
    • BOOK EVENT | Richmond L. Clow on "Spotted Tail: Warrior and Statesman"
    • BOOK & COMMUNITY EVENT | Winter Coat Drive & Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve on "The Christmas Coat: Memories of My Sioux Childhood"
    • BOOK EVENT | R. Eli Paul on "The Frontier Army: Episodes from Dakota and the West"
    • Born Criminal: Matilda Joslyn Gage, Radical Suffragist
    • From HUAC to EROS: How the Mundt/Nixon Association Impacted South Dakota and the Nation
    • Behind the Scenes of the 19th Century
    • AUTHOR EVENT: The History & Heritage Book Club presents Jay D. Vogt on "Picturing the Past"
    • South Dakota Festival of Books
    • 68th Annual WWA Convention
    • WHA 2021 Annual Conference
    • Presentation and Book Signing with Sean Flynn
    • Book Signing at DDR Books in Watertown
    • From Spearfish Farmer to Niesei Soldier: Remembering Kenny Higashi and the Japanese American Experience During WWII
    • AUTHOR EVENT: The Savior of Deadwood
    • AUTHOR EVENT: A Night with Western American Artist Charles Russell
    • 62nd Missouri Valley History Conference
    • BookExpo America and BookCon
    • Association of University Presses Annual Meeting
    • An Afternoon with Sean Flynn
    • 2019 Denver Indian Wars Symposium
    • Sensational Sundays: Book Lecture & Signing (Sean J. Flynn)
    • Book Talk & Signing with Angelica Shirley Carpenter
    • BookExpo America | AUTOGRAPHING SESSION WITH NANCY TYSTAD KOUPAL
    • AUTHOR EVENT: "Love Letters from Mount Rushmore"
    • BOOK SIGNING: Gregory Bryan Author of "Paul Goble, Storyteller"
    • CALL FOR PROPOSALS | "The Plains Political Tradition, Vol. 4"
    • Delta Kappa Gamma Society Northwest Regional Conference
    • Laura Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society: Laura's 150th Birthday Event
    • MEET THE AUTHORS & BOOK SIGNING
    • 2018 Annual History Conference
    • CWS Hosts Plains Politics Symposium and Book Launch
    • Act of Excellence Ceremony
    • Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Annual Winter Conference
    • AUTHOR EVENT | James KP Miller: The Savior of Deadwood
    • South Dakota State Historical Society Annual History Conference
    • Western History Association Conference
    • History Talks! | Lauren R. Harris
    • History and Heritage Book Club
    • Book Signing with Sean J. Flynn
    • After Hours Author Event with Angelica Shirley Carpenter
    • AUTHOR EVENT | Two Visions of Success: Seth Bullock and James KP Miller in Early Deadwood
    • Holiday Open House
    • BOOK SIGNING: "Monster Who Ate the State" by Chris Browne
    • BookExpo America, 2018
    • History & Heritage Book Club
    • Emerging Scholars Research Grant
    • Pre-Conference Virtual Event | Katherine Sharp Landdeck
    • Post-Conference Event | Virginia Wright-Petersen
    • CONFERENCE: Northern Great Plains History Conference
• Blog
  • Book Expo America Recap, “Little Booth, Gigantic Books”
  • Photo Recap of the South Dakota Governor’s Conference on Tourism
  • Working Cattle with Ed Lemmon; or, A Town Boy Explains How Not to Ride Line
  • "Muskrat and Skunk, Sinkpe na Maka" Author is on Tour
  • Glorious Fourth of July and Other Stories from the Plains
  • Flashback Friday: Winter on the Range
  • Schaller’s Department Store, a Piece of Watertown History
  • Flashback Friday: Carrie Ingalls & Her Tar Paper Shack
  • Love Letters from Mount Rushmore in Italy
  • Flashback Friday: The Life and Style of Casey Tibbs
  • A Birthday Celebration: Laura Ingalls Wilder Turns 151
  • Flashback Friday: Women on the Plains
  • The Saga of the Soddie
  • Flashback Friday: The Outlaw Poet
  • Cabin Fever in the Land of Infinite Winter
  • Flashback Friday: “Overlooked,” South Dakota Edition
  • Flashback Friday: Fighting Stallions Memorial
  • Introducing Mike Burns, New Associate Editor
  • Introducing Cody Ewert, New Associate Editor
  • Flashback Friday: Remembering World War I
  • Death by Bean Feed
  • Remembering Pearl Harbor
  • Like Many Others. . . . South Dakota
  • A Monumental Anniversary
  • Six-Man Comeback?
  • Our Churches
  • Dakota’s Dubious Dinosaurs
  • Naval Ships and a Land-Locked State
  • Covering the Spanish Flu
  • Looking for Lucretia’s House
  • A Century of Wildlife Recovery in Custer State Park
  • “Source Material” and The Frontier Army
  • Summer 2019: Progress Report
  • 2019 South Dakota One Book, Young Readers
  • Hiding in Plain Sight
  • The Gift of Handkerchiefs
  • Defending Separate Spheres: Anti-Suffrage Women in South Dakota Suffrage Campaigns
  • Cora Smith Eaton and North Dakota Woman Suffrage
  • “So Great an Innovation”: Women Suffrage in Wyoming
  • Man or Myth, Who was Wild Bill Hickok?
  • “A Right to Help Make the Laws”: Helen Piotopowaka Clarke, Virginia Billedeaux, and Blackfeet Empowerment
  • “Wake Up, Wyoming”: The Push to Ratify the Nineteenth Amendment in the Northern Great Plains States
  • “The Women Voted”: School Suffrage in Dakota Territory and South Dakota
  • Mount Rushmore Figures Cross Paths
  • “Everybody was in the same boat.”: Remembering the Great Depression
  • How a Fur Trade Figure Helped Spark the Civil War
  • Transitioning
  • History without Borders
  • The 19th at 100
  • Voting through a Pandemic
  • 2020 Catalog
  • Introducing Dedra Birzer, New Press Director
  • The Inside Story of Prairie to Page
  • Three Vital Chapters in Wilder's Life
  • Log Cabins Tell South Dakota’s History
  • Suffrage, Stories, and Civics
  • A Governor's Story
  • Finding Inspiration in Unexpected Places: The Origins of "The Savior of Deadwood"
  • Understanding Custer’s Defeat at Little Big Horn
  • Free Sneak Peek of Summer “South Dakota History”
  • It’s Conference Season!
  • Don't Miss Wilder
  • Deadline Closing In, Apply for Our New Research Grant Now!
  • Introducing New Press Staff, Mary Andino and Abby Wright
  • Press Announces Winners of Emerging Scholars Research Grant
  • Latest State Historical Society Laura Ingalls Wilder Book Wins Design Award
  • 50 Years after the Flood
  • New Books for Fall 2022
  • Introducing Slater Sabo, New Associate Editor
  • From the Archives to the Pages of South Dakota History
  • South Dakota Storytelling
  • South Dakota History features fur trade dogs, Beadle County schools, Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Celebrating Ten Years and 200,000 Copies of Pioneer Girl!
  • Whitlock Research Fellowship Call for Applicants
  • Woman Suffrage Books — Online Sale
  • South Dakota History Vol. 51 Available Online
  • Wilder Weather available now!
  • SDHS Press books named Will Rogers Medallion Award finalists
  • Upcoming New Releases
  • South Dakota Legislative Session Book Sale
  • Epic Poem on South Dakota and the U.S. Semiquincentennial Available in March
• Pioneer Girl Project