NHD In South 啵啵直播秀 Theme Topic Explorer
Use this interactive list of optional South 啵啵直播秀 Topics to inspire your National History Day Research!
Each topic page includes helpful resources to help you get started on your historical research pursuits. Items marked with a * are resources located within South 啵啵直播秀.
Calamity Jane was a frontierswoman, scout and all-around unique character in the Wild West, most notably in Deadwood.
Calamity Jane dressed in her regular attire and posing with a rifle.
Calamity Jane Information
Available Resource(s):
- - Some of the archives are available online, but you can contact city archivist Michael Runge with the email or phone number found on this website to request further information.
- - Information on how to visit the grave site of Wild Bill in Deadwood's Mount Moriah Cemetery.
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Harris, Colin. 鈥淛ames Butler 'Wild Bill' Hickok Meets 'Calamity Jane' Cannary.鈥 World History Project.
Joseph Gladden Hutton was a soil scientist who advocated for improving soil practices and conservation prior to the 1930s Dust Bowl.
Portrait of Joseph Gladden Hutton, ca. 1930.
Joseph Gladden Hutton Information
Available Resource(s):
- *: - The South 啵啵直播秀 Agricultural Heritage Museum has many resources regarding Joseph Gladden Hutton. Contact their Collections Coordinator Rachel Clendenin to see how you can utilize these resources.
- South 啵啵直播秀 Agricultural Heritage Museum Exhibit*, Groundbreakers: Early Agricultural Scientists and Engineers of SDSU * - This exhibit has an entire section dedicated to Joseph Gladden Hutton. Visit the museum between Nov.16, 2017 and late 2019 to experience the exhibit.
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J. G. Hutton Photo Collection, 2016:023:033. South 啵啵直播秀 Agricultural Heritage Museum, Brookings.
Korczak Ziolkowski was a Polish-American sculptor who was invited by Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear to create the Crazy Horse Memorial.
Ziolkowski with a model of the monument in front of the hill that would be used.
Korczak Ziolkowski Information
Available Resource(s):
- * - This website gives a brief comprehensive history of Ziolkowski鈥檚 life. It is by no means a complete biography, but it is a good starting point.
- * - The South 啵啵直播秀 State Historical Society's online archives contain resources pertaining to Ziolkowski and the Crazy Horse Monument.
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Sulzberger, A. G. 鈥.鈥 Nation and World, Seattle Times, 17 March 2012
Dora DuFran was a notable madam who ran a number of brothels throughout the Black Hills, starting in the early days of the gold rush.
Dora DuFran Information
Available Resources:
- - It鈥檚 important to look at all films made for purely entertainment purposes with a very critical eye. Be sure to thoroughly research each event before trusting its accuracy.
- * - Once you click on the newspaper option, you will be given directions on how to access that source in the archives.
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Additional archives can be accessed by contacting the city archivist at 605-578-2082.
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Weiser, Kathy. 鈥溾 The Painted Ladies of Deadwood Gulch, Legends of America, Apr. 2017
A flash flood in the summer of 1972 led to devastation throughout Rapid City causing the deaths of over 200 people and billions of dollars in damages.
Cars piled up at East Boulevard after the flood.
The Black Hills Flood of 1972 Information
Available Resource(s):
- The Rapid City Flood鈥 June 9, 1972. A Unique Picture Magazine Providing a Graphic Account of Rapid City鈥檚 Most Unforgettable Moment:* - Contact Rachel Clendenin, the Collection Coordinator at the museum, in advance if you have a specific item that you wish to see. This way they will be able to have it prepared when you visit. Image Call #GB1225.S8 R36 1972
- : Once you click on a newspaper option, you will be given directions on how to access that source in the archives.
- :* If you know someone who lived in Rapid at the time, consider conducting an interview with them.
Rapid City Journal. 鈥淭he Black Hills Flood of 1972.鈥 The Black Hills Flood of 1972, National Weather Service, 10 June 1972.
The Wounded Knee Occupation occurred in 1973 when the American Indian Movement seized Wounded Knee, South 啵啵直播秀 and occupied it for 71 days to protest the tribal council president, Richard Wilson.
Native American activists during the Wounded Knee Occupation. Sign above door reads, 鈥淚ndependent Oglala Nation Wounded Knee."
Wounded Knee Occupation Information
Available Resource(s):
- - The audio from this news story includes first hand accounts of the Wounded Knee Occupation from residents of the Pine Ridge Reservation during the occupation.
- - This collection of statements from the Oglala Sioux Tribal President, South 啵啵直播秀 senators, etc. explains the events leading up to and following the Occupation at Wounded Knee.
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鈥淪iege at Wounded Knee, 1973.鈥 Siege at Wounded Knee, 1973, Libcom.org, 19 Sept. 2006.
An extreme blizzard that led to 170 deaths in South 啵啵直播秀 alone. Many of those who passed away were school children trying to walk home, giving this blizzard its name. This blizzards is also sometimes referred to as the Schoolhouse Blizzard of 1888.
The Children鈥檚 Blizzard Information
Available Resource(s):
- The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin can be found at the South 啵啵直播秀 Agricultural Heritage Museum in Brookings * - This book can also be found online on Amazon, eBay, etc., or at libraries throughout the state.
- O鈥橤ara, W. H. In All Its Fury, the Blizzard of Jan. 12, 1888. Lincoln, NE: Union College Press, 1947. - Contact Rachel Clendenin, the Collection Coordinator at the museum, in advance if you have a specific item that you wish to see. Acc#1991:186:001. Call # F666 I53 1947
- 鈥漇cenes and Incidents of the Recent Terrible Blizzard in 啵啵直播秀鈥 from Frank Leslie鈥檚 Illustrated Newspaper, Jan. 28, 1888, page 401. - Acc #87:022:003
- - Detailed description of the blizzard by the National Weather Service.
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Scenes and Incidents of the Recent Terrible Blizzard in 啵啵直播秀, 1987:022:033. South 啵啵直播秀 Agricultural Heritage Museum, Brookings, SD.*
The Farmers鈥 Holiday Association was an organization consisting of mainly midwestern and Great Plains farmers who organized a farming protest, or "holiday." This group created controversy when it caused the Elk Point Tragedy, where a milk distributor was killed.
Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, SD
Elk Point Tragedy Information
Available Resource(s):
- - This article is a good place to start to get a general overview of the Elk Point Tragedy.
- - This link takes you to newspapers.com, where many newspaper articles on the topic can be found. The site offers an option for a 7 day free trial, but subscriptions are also available for $7.95 a month.
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, Creator, Van Sickle and Bill Lackey, Boucher, Jack, photographer. Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, SD. Elk Point South 啵啵直播秀 Union County, 1933. Documentation Compiled After. Photograph.
The 1876 Deadwood Gold Rush led to an influx of mines and miners. Poor safety and health practices led to countless diseases, accidents and deaths. One of the most common ailments that plagued miners was known as Silicosis, a lung disease caused by the inhalation of dust contains small pieces of crystalline silica.
Postcard showing two men operating a pneumatic drill at the Homestake Mine in Lead, S.D., 1912.
Silicosis Lung Disease in Black Hills Miners Information
Available Resource(s):
- * - The Broken Boot Gold Mine is located in Deadwood, South 啵啵直播秀 and offers a 30 minute guided tour and gold panning instruction. Tours are only offered in the summer (Memorial Day to Labor Day).
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鈥.鈥 Penny Postcards from South 啵啵直播秀, USGenWeb Archives.
Famous lawman, James 鈥淲ild Bill鈥 Hickok, was shot while gambling at the Saloon #10 in Deadwood, South 啵啵直播秀. His shooter, Jack McCall, who was able to get away with the shooting by claiming that Hickok had murdered his brother. Eventually, McCall was turned over to a U.S. Marshall in 啵啵直播秀 Territory where he would be re-tried for Hickok's murder.
The Murder of Wild Bill Hickok Information
Available Resource(s):
- * - Additional archives can be accessed by contacting city archivist Michael Runge at .
- * - Locate the historical markers for both the trial and hanging of the notorious Jack McCall for the murder of Wild Bill Hickok.
- * - Information on how to visit the Grave of Wild Bill in Deadwood's Mount Moriah Cemetery.
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鈥淔ile: Wild Bill Hickok sepia.png鈥 . Accessed June 27, 2018.
The Homestake Opera House was built in 1914 by Phoebe Apperson Hearst and Thomas Grier. The theater portion was ruined, and the rest of the building nearly destroyed, when it was consumed by a fire in 1984. Restorations of the building were started in 1995 and continue to this day.
1984 Homestake Opera House Fire Information
Available Resource(s):
- - Images from the fire can also be found on the Homestake Opera House's website.
- - Dates, times and prices for tours and scheduling visits can be found on this page, along with contact information.
- - Information can be found on this site on how to conduct an oral history.
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"Tonight marks the anniversary of the 1984 Homestake Opera House fire." Homestake Opera House. Last modified April 2, 2018. Accessed on June 27, 2018.
The Wounded Knee Massacre took place Dec. 29, 1890, and was a conflict between the North American Lakota People and representatives of the U.S. government which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Lakota men, women and children.
Wounded Knee Massacre Information
Available Resource(s):
- * - This website lists the operating hours of the museum and contact information, along with some information about the event itself.
- * - Visit the Wounded Knee Massacre Monument in Wounded Knee, SD located on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South 啵啵直播秀 .
- by David W. Grua - A study conducted to preserve the memory of those who were at Wounded Knee in 1890.
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Remington, Frederic, Artist. . South 啵啵直播秀 Wounded Knee, 1891. Photograph.
W.E. Adams and his brother moved to Deadwood and started a grocery store. When it was destroyed by a fire, the brothers rebuilt it and became one of the largest wholesalers in the region. He was also elected mayor of Deadwood six times!
W.E. Adams Information
Available Resource(s):
- * - Some of the archives are available online, but you can contact city archivist Michael Runge with the email or phone number found on this website to request further information.
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Michak, Jessica. "" South 啵啵直播秀 Public Broadcasting.
The first woman to be elected to the senate without being previously appointed to the United States Congress. She 鈥嬧嬧媤as also the first woman to hold a congressional office in South 啵啵直播秀. Her mother, Mary Isabella "Mamie" Shields Pyle, was very active in the national women鈥檚 suffrage movement.
Gladys Pyle Information
Available Resource(s):
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- - A collection of research done by Jeanette Kinyon and Jean Walz about Pyle鈥檚 career as a politician - available at Briggs Library at South 啵啵直播秀 State University; these are also available at University of South 啵啵直播秀 in Vermilion.
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Often forgotten because of General Custer, Crook spared the lives of many Native Americans as he marched his men out of Montana after the Battle of the Little Bighorn. He arrived in today's Harding County where there is a monument to those who lost their lives in the Battle of Slim Buttes.
The Forgotten General Information
Available Resource(s):
- 1881 Courthouse Museum* - Contact the director, Gary Enright, for more help
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This movement began in the 1960s and formed after the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Native Americans used the phrase, 鈥淩ed Power.鈥 In South 啵啵直播秀, Native Americans occupied Wounded Knee and Mount Rushmore and even swarmed the Bureau of Indian Affairs office in Washington, D.C.
AIM Information
Available Resource(s):
- - An autobiography by Mary Crow Dog, where she recalled her time at the Rosebud Reservation and with the American Indian Movement.
- - Offers articles written at the time of this movement by an investigator and agent. Talk to Linda if you have any questions!
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The Homestead Act of 1862 opened South 啵啵直播秀 to Americans, explicitly allowing women to own their own land. This opportunity was hard to pass up for some women, they packed up everything they could and moved to the Great Plains to try to 鈥減rove up,鈥 their land.
Women Homesteaders Information
Available Resource(s):
- - An autobiography by Edith Kohl, where she described her life on her homestead near the Lower Brule reservation.
- * - Physical copy of this Journal available at the Agricultural Heritage Museum in Brookings
- SD Agricultural Heritage Museum Exhibit - FarmHer * - Exhibit is open until February 2020.
- - This article compared women's lives in the 1920s, one woman was from South 啵啵直播秀 while the other was from Iowa.
- - This book, by H. Elaine Lindgren, gives a well-rounded view of life for women on the frontier
- South 啵啵直播秀 Art Museum Exhibit - Harvey Dunn* - Opening Fall 2019
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At the Homestake Mine in Lead, scientists experiment in areas like, biology, engineering and geology. They work in underground facilities that were once used to mine gold.
Homestake Mine Information
Resources:
- Research is conducted here year round, they offer tours and exhibits to the public.
- Talk to Michael Runge if you have any questions! His number and email are on the above site.
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Part of Franklin D. Roosevelt鈥檚 鈥淣ew Deal,鈥 this granted electricity to nearly every farm in the United States. It provided federal funding at low interest rates to cooperatives, power districts, and other public programs. From this, new agricultural advances ensued.
REA Information
Available Resource(s):
- - This article by Brian Q. Cannon from the Western Historical Quarterly gives a brief history of rural electrification and how New Deal agencies empowered westerners.
- - An article that explains how farmer鈥檚 got their electricity through extension services, as well as, the different improvements needed to get this up and running.
- Agricultural Heritage Museum 鈥 Power to the People - Opening Fall 2019
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The Populist Party, otherwise known as the People鈥檚 Party was a grass-roots political party that focused on the small farmer. This brought different ethnicities and religions together, but it was not a party of 鈥渉ave-nots.鈥 Farmers who owned physical property were more likely to join the movement. It also coincides with the Farmers Alliance movement.
The Populist Party Information
Available Resource(s):
- - This article gives a brief explanation of the Populist Party in South 啵啵直播秀, mainly Marshall County.
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Once the United States had secured the Louisiana Purchase, President Thomas Jefferson wanted to explore the new land. He chose Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to lead the expedition. They came right through South 啵啵直播秀 and had multiple meetings with the Sioux tribes.
Lewis and Clark Expedition Information
Available Resource(s):
- - This book recalls the Lewis and Clark expedition, and their many meetings with the Sioux tribes.
- - This article is a great representation of the Native American鈥檚 side of the story.
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Harvey Dunn is the most well-known South 啵啵直播秀 painter. He was born near Manchester, South 啵啵直播秀 in a 9 by 7 foot shack. He went to South 啵啵直播秀 State University to study art. From there, we went to study under Howard Pyle in Delaware. He became a famous illustrator for magazines like, Harper鈥檚 Weekly, American Legion Monthly, and The Saturday Evening Post. Towards the end of this life, he taught art in New York.
Harvey Dunn Information
Available Resource(s):
- South 啵啵直播秀 Art Museum 鈥 Harvey Dunn: Imagining Others - Open now until Dec. 11, 2019
- - This book reflects on Harvey Dunn, the teacher.
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Harvey Dunn: Imagining Others. (2019, August 13). South 啵啵直播秀 State University.
The second of the Fort Laramie treaties, this treaty was supposed to bring peace to the neighboring Sioux tribes, as well as, with the settling Americans. With this treaty, the United States recognized the Black Hills as part of the Great Sioux Reservation. This allowed only authorized people to enter the Black Hills and any land within the reservation. To this day, the ownership of the Black Hills remains a legal dispute between the United States and the Sioux Nations.
Ft. Laramie Treaty (1868) Information
Available Resource(s):
- - This is the original document signed at Fort Laramie in 1868
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Fort Laramie Treaty Case Study | Teacher resource. (n.d.)
Women in South 啵啵直播秀 earned the right to vote in 1918, a year before it became federal law. Settlers had tried to get women鈥檚 suffrage in the state constitution, but it did not get ratified in time. A specific example of this was Emma Smith DeVoe who was originally born in Illinois, where she was influenced by Susan B. Anthony at a young age. In South 啵啵直播秀, she began as an assistant state organizer for the South 啵啵直播秀 Equal Suffrage Association (SDESA) in 1889. In South 啵啵直播秀, DeVoe worked closely with Susan B. Anthony.
Women's Suffrage in South 啵啵直播秀 Information
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Crazy Horse was born in the 1840's along Rapid Creek east of the Black Hills. He was a fearless Lakota leader who was committed to protecting his people and their land. He is best known for leading the Sioux in their fight against the U.S. government while trying to protect their land at the Battle of Little Bighorn against Lt. Colonel George Custer.
Crazy Horse Information
Available Resource(s):
- 鈥: Crazy Horse Memorial庐鈥
- 鈥Hilton M. Briggs Library鈥 South 啵啵直播秀 State University,
- 鈥溾&苍产蝉辫;IndianCountryToday.com
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鈥溾&苍产蝉辫;IndianCountryToday.com
Peter Norbeck was South 啵啵直播秀鈥檚 first native-born governor. He was born in 1870 in Clay County, South 啵啵直播秀 in his parents鈥 dugout on their homestead. He entered politics in 1908 and promoted state-owned enterprises, state hail insurance, the women鈥檚 suffrage movement and the prohibition of alcohol. After two terms as governor, Norbeck was elected the United State Senate in 1920 where he advocated for the carving of Mount Rushmore.
Peter Norbeck Information
Available Resource(s):
- 鈥淗ilton M. Briggs Library.鈥 South 啵啵直播秀 State University,
- Public Broadcasting Service (PBS),
- Trail of Governors Foundation,
- Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | Norbeck, Peter (1870-1936)
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Gertrude Bonnin, born on the Yankton Sioux Reservation in 1876, was a Native American activist during the early 20th century. In 1926, Gertrude founded the National Council of American Indians which brought up issues regarding land and resource issues Indian people faced. She wrote stories that were critical of boarding schools that many of her people were forced to attend and the assimilation enacted upon them. Until her death in 1928, Gertrude worked for improvements in education, culture preservation, health care, and legal issues among Native Americans.
Zitkala-艩a, having grown her hair back out after her stay at the missionary school, and her violin.
Gertrude Simmons Bonnin Information
Available Resource(s):
- 鈥淗ilton M. Briggs Library.鈥 South 啵啵直播秀 State University,
- : Gertrude Simmons Bonnin - 1876-1938 - American Indian Relief Council Is Now Northern Plains Reservation Aid,
- National Parks Service, U.S. Department of the Interior,
- (1876-1938), Author and Activist | American National Biography, 16 June 2017,
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Kasebier, Gertrude. , National Park Service, 1898.
Born to a Sioux mother and a German American father, Benjamin Reifel was the first congressman from the Sioux nation. After graduating from South 啵啵直播秀 State, Reifel worked for the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs where he helped tribes set up their government. In 1960, Reifel was the first American Indian from South 啵啵直播秀 to serve in Congress. Throughout his career, Benjamin worked to better schools and hospitals on Indian reservations, also advocated for reservation and county schools be merged as one so that Native and non-Native children would be educated together.
Benjamin Reifel Information
Additional Resource(s):
- 鈥Hilton M. Briggs Library.鈥&苍产蝉辫;South 啵啵直播秀 State University
- 鈥: Ben Reifel - American Indian Education Foundation.鈥&苍产蝉辫;A Program of Partnership With Native Americans
- 鈥The Life of Ben Reifel.鈥&苍产蝉辫;South 啵啵直播秀 State University
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&苍产蝉辫;鈥The Life of Ben Reifel鈥&苍产蝉辫;South 啵啵直播秀 State University.
Many of the early arrivals in Deadwood, including Wild Bill Hickok, were Civil War veterans. Deadwood鈥檚 Mount Moriah Cemetery has a section devoted to them. The Civil War was instrumental in motivating people to move west in the years leading up to and following the Black Hills gold rush.
Civil War Veterans Information
Available Resource(s):
- : Deadwood History, Inc. has photographs of Black Hills Civil War Veterans and soldier reunions, Diaries and Grand Army of the Republic Records and artifacts. For access to these and more archival materials, email archivist Tia Stenson or call 605-722-4800.
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The Grand Army of the Republic reunion in Lead on Mill Street, 1900. Adams Museum Collection.
The Deadwood, You Bet Committee was instrumental in bringing legalized gaming to Deadwood as a way to stimulate the economy and restore and preserve the historic city. You Bet committee members on the balcony of the Franklin Hotel.
Deadwood You Bet Committee Information
Available Resource(s):
*: Deadwood History, Inc. has photographs of the committee and the Syndicate Building Fire, committee records and advertisements, as well as memorabilia related to the legalization of gambling. For access to these and more archival materials, email archivist Tia Stenson or call 605-722-4800. Image Courtesy of Deadwood History, Inc. Adams Museum Collection.
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Image Courtesy of Deadwood History, Inc. Adams Museum Collection.
Ray Davis, Jr. earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from Yale in 1942. He conducted ground-breaking research on neutrinos, particles that are created in the sun鈥檚 and the earth鈥檚 interior and have no weight or charge. Davis performed experiments in the Homestake Gold Mine in the 1960s and in 2002 won a Nobel Prize in Physics for his work with neutrinos.
Ray Davis, 1968. Homestake Mining Company Collection
Ray Davis Information
Available Resource(s):
- *: Deadwood History, Inc. has correspondence between James Dunn and Ray Davis, Homestake Mining Company historical photographs of the neutrino work, and Sharp Bits issues related to Ray Davis.
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For the Homestake Mining Company (HMC), timber production was a vital component of the success of the mine as well as the lasting endurance of the National Forest in the area. In 1897, a plan for timber harvest was created and presented to the HMC by Gifford Pinchot, an agent of the Department of the Interior. The plan was approved in 1899, creating Timber Case No. 1, which constituted the first regulated timber harvest and sale from Federal Forest Reserves.
The original building and site of the first sawmill of the Homestake Timber Division where logs were processed from the first harvest of U.S. Forest Service Case No. 1.
United States Forest Service Information
Available Resource(s):
- Nuggets to Neutrinos by Steven T. Mitchell.
- *: Deadwood History, Inc. has publications and maps related to the U.S. Forest Service and photographs relating to the timber operations of the Homestake Mining Company.
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Image Courtesy of Deadwood History, Inc. Homestake Mining Company Collection.
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania in 1792, George Catlin was an accomplished American author and painter who is highly regarded for his renderings of Native Americans in the 19th-Century American West from North 啵啵直播秀 through Oklahoma. In 1841, Catlin published his paintings in a collection entitled "Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indian." With this collection, Catlin traveled Europe, Central America and South America to share his paintings and stories of Native Americans. George Catlin is remembered for his authenticity and transparency as an artist.
George Catlin Information
Available Resource(s):
- : This site includes a biography and links to some of his works.
- : This site includes information about Catlin's life, works, and video and photo footage of his paintings and art shows.
- : The state archives offers information from his time in South 啵啵直播秀.
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South 啵啵直播秀鈥檚 first Poet Laureate, Charles Badger Clark, was born in Albia, Iowa in 1883. Traveling to South 啵啵直播秀 to attend 啵啵直播秀 Wesleyan University in Mitchell, Clark quickly fell in love with moving westward. Throughout his travels, he worked as a cowboy on Arizona and South 啵啵直播秀 ranches, where he began to write poetry about his life and experiences as a working cowboy in the last days of the open range. While living near Custer, Gov. Leslie Jensen named Charles Badger Clark as South 啵啵直播秀鈥檚 first Poet Laureate in 1937. He died at the age of 74 in 1957 and is remembered for such poems as, 鈥淎 Cowboy鈥檚 Prayer,鈥 鈥淪panish is the Loving Tongue鈥 and 鈥淩idin鈥.鈥
Charles Badger Clark Information
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Born in Ft. Pierre in 1929, Casey Tibbs was a rodeo cowboy, businessman and actor. Starting his career at age 12, Tibbs would go on to win nine world championship titles across bareback riding, saddle bronc riding and all-around cowboy disciplines. While serving on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys鈥 Association (PRCA) board of directors, he advocated for a season-ending championship event, which would grow to become the National Finals Rodeo (NFR.) The PRCA hosted the first National Finals Rodeo in Dallas, Texas in 1959, where Tibbs competed for the final time. He died at the age of 60 in 1990. Today, the Casey Tibbs South 啵啵直播秀 Rodeo Center in Ft. Pierre, South 啵啵直播秀 carries on the legacy of Casey and other notable South 啵啵直播秀 cowboys.
Casey Tibbs Information
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- : Biography and foundation information.
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James 鈥淭ama Jim鈥 Wilson was a Scottish-American politician who served as United States Secretary of Agriculture for 16 years during three presidencies, from 1897 to 1913. Born in Ayrshire, Scotland, in 1835, 鈥淭ama Jim鈥 grew up in a farming community near the birthplace of famous poet Robert Burns. Upon immigrating to the United States, Wilson served as a professor of agriculture at Iowa State University, was a member of the Iowa and United States House of Representatives and served as Secretary of Agriculture for William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft. During this time, he worked closely with land grant universities (including SDSU) and professors, sending N.E. Hansen on multiple trips through the years. William McKinley once noted had it not been for Wilson鈥檚 birth in Scotland, he would have undoubtedly been elected president of the United States. James Wilson died at the age of 85 in 1920, and still holds the record as the longest-serving United States Cabinet member.
James "Tama Jim" Wilson Information
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Contributors
This project was a collaboration between The South 啵啵直播秀 Agricultural Heritage Museum and National History Day in South 啵啵直播秀. The museum would also like to add an additional thank you to South 啵啵直播秀 State University History majors Paige Barthel, Clara Burns, Austin Kuchel, Lauren Pierce and Megan Stiefvater. They served as National History Day in South 啵啵直播秀 student interns, researching and compiling resources for this project.
