E-Newsletter
Sign up for our monthly potpourri of South Dakota humor, trivia, recipes and travel!
Events
February 02 - February 24"What A Wonderful World" Photography Exhibit - Yankton
February 03 - March 03Linda Ackland-Kolb Art Exhibit - SIoux Falls
February 17 - March 04Driving Miss Daisy - Sioux Falls
February 21 - February 25 February 22 - February 24 All Events
Featured Stories
The Verne Miller Story : From Lawman To Outlaw
Following the trail of a Beadle County sheriff turned gangster.
Faith in the Voters
An Aberdeen priest was the father of the initiative and referendum process that gave us term limits, ...
The Great Hyde County Prairie Fire of 1947
Third-generation rancher Johnny Bown sent this account of Hyde County’s devastating prairie fire ...
Columns
February 15, 2012
Cavour’s Lady Leatherheads
We thought Dakota State was first, but Cavour High fielded a girls football team in 1926. [read More]
January 25, 2012
Wild Bill and Calamity Jane: A Love Story?
The first film to link them romantically has been rediscovered nearly 100 years after its creation. Watch it this weekend. [read More]
January 18, 2012
Gideon Moody: Scrupulous Senator, Knife Fighter
The man once challenged to a duel became one of South Dakota’s most honest public figures. [read More]
January 11, 2012
Is There a Pilgrim in Your Family Tree?
Some South Dakotans are descended from the English dissenters who rode the Mayflower. You might be one of them. [read More]
December 23, 2011
Christmas at the Poor House
A Depression-era Christmas at the Charles Mix County Home for the Poor provided a rich memory for Hilda McKnight of Academy. [read More]