On the Road: Have You Been to Wall Drug?
By Gena Philibert-Ortega on August 21, 2024
In this article, Gena Philibert-Ortega begins her new “On the Road” series with Wall Drug Store in Wall, South Dakota... (Read More)
Tag: South Dakota
South Dakota Archives: 131 Newspapers for Genealogy Research
By Tony Pettinato on August 8, 2024
An article (with a complete title list) about the 131 South Dakota newspapers available in GenealogyBank’s online Historical Newspaper Archives... (Read More)
On This Day, a Lakota Tragedy: Wounded Knee Massacre
By Tony Pettinato on December 29, 2020
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)
October 1880 Snowstorm Began ‘The Snow Winter’
By Thomas Jay Kemp on November 1, 2013
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)
‘You Can’t Take It with You’? Nelson A. Brucker Did
By Thomas Jay Kemp on January 14, 2013
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)
Deadwood Dick: Chasing a Cornish-American Legend
By Scott Phillips on November 12, 2012
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)
A soldier’s last letter ….
By Thomas Jay Kemp on February 26, 2008
“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... (Read More)
