South Dakota Archives: 121 Newspapers for Genealogy Research
By Tony Pettinato on March 29, 2023
An article (with a complete title list) about the 121 South Dakota newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)
An article (with a complete title list) about the 121 South Dakota newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)
An article (with a complete title list) about the 121 South Dakota newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)
An article (with a complete title list) about the 114 South Dakota newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)
An article about the Wounded Knee Massacre in S.D. on 29 December 1890 when Spotted Elk and his band of Miniconjou and Hunkpapa Lakota were slaughtered... (Read More)
This photograph was taken in March 1881 of a train passing through snow-covered Minnesota in the worst snow season ever recorded there. The snow season started with a storm in October 1880 and it just kept on snowing until March of 1881. It was one of the Midwest’s worst-ever snow seasons, with multiple blizzards... (Read More)
We’ve all heard that saying before. Conventional wisdom tells us: “you can’t take it with you when you go.” But Nelson A. Brucker of Deadwood, South Dakota, did. He made arrangements before he died to have his money buried with him in an unmarked grave “in a secluded spot in the hills near his... (Read More)
In this article, Scott Phillips digs into old newspapers to see if the Wild West’s legendary character “Deadwood Dick” was a real person or just a myth... (Read More)
“What have I done I asked myself, to deserve to be remembered by strangers in a town in which I had never been…” You can almost hear him ask that now, over 100 years later as we remember him. Corporal Wilson Mcpherson Osbon (1877-1899) wrote the letter on 28 Dec 1898, in gratitude for... (Read More)