Nestled in the Badlands

Interior is quietly busy. [read more]

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Food

Watertown’s Pizza Champ

Sean Dempsey is broadening our pizza horizons. [read more ]

Christmas Cookies With a Twist

History

Dakota’s Bullwhackeress

Emma Buckingham, as skilled with a team of oxen as anyone, helped build the Black Hills. [read more ]

George Kingsbury: Eyewitness to History

Outdoors

Needles Highway in Winter

When a well-traveled state highway becomes a dynamite path to solitude. [read more ]

Culture

Following Black Elk’s Good Red Road

Our visit to Manderson, home of the Lakota holy man who may one day be declared a saint. [read more ]

Business

Tasty Theatrics of the Wine Cellar

Diners seem to appreciate the little nighttime eatery with black tablecloths and a hostess who knows food and theater. [read more ]

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On This Day

February 19

Gabriel Renville, the last chief of the Sisseton and Wahpeton tribes, signed a treaty with the U.S. today in 1867 that created the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation in northeastern South Dakota and southeastern North Dakota. Renville was born on the shores of Big Stone Lake in 1824. Renville and his band did not fight during the 1862 Sioux Uprising. Instead, Renville was made an Army scout and his band was given protection. Four years later Renville became chief for life. After signing the treaty, Renville taught Indians how to farm and helped usher the tribe into white society. He died in 1892.