South Dakota News, Events and Travel Tips

State Historical Society releasing children’s book ‘Enchanted Buffalo’

Posted by on Sep 30, 2010 in General News, History, Western Culture | 0 comments

L. Frank Baum’s "The Enchanted Buffalo" is the fifth book in the Prairie Tale Series from the South Dakota...

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Great Plains Zoo’s wolves featured on book cover

Posted by on Apr 24, 2010 in Eastern SD, General News, Wildlife | 0 comments

Some exciting news from the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls: Two Red Wolves at the Great Plains Zoo and Delbridge Museum of Natural...

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Book review: ‘A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles’

Posted by on Dec 21, 2009 in Black Hills, History, Western SD | 0 comments

I came away from reading "A Marvelous Hundred Square Miles: Black Hills Tourism, 1880-1941" with an enlarged appreciation for the...

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New book tells history of grain palaces

Posted by on Dec 14, 2009 in General News, History | 0 comments

The Mitchell Corn Palace proudly bears the title "world’s only" today, but there were many other grain palaces built during...

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South Dakota author getting noticed nationally

Posted by on Nov 25, 2009 in Black Hills, Entertainment, General News, Western Culture, Western SD | 0 comments

I was sitting in the waiting room of an optometrist office last week when I noticed a People magazine on the chair next to me. I picked it...

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