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Benjamin Fischbach captured the Veterans Memorial in Brookings at sunset. [read more]

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Food

Freeman’s Savory Soup

Summer savory provides a subtle punch to a traditional German dish. [read more ]

Christmas Cookies With a Twist

Travel

The Characters of Isabel

They keep the town humming and preserve its stories. [read more ]

History

Ramming Through the Mickelson Trail

The 109-mile mountain corridor’s bumpy beginnings. [read more ]

George Kingsbury: Eyewitness to History

Outdoors

Dancing with Grebes

Spellbinding rituals of spring occur on South Dakota’s lakes and ponds. [read more ]

Why We Fall for Balanced Rocks

Culture

The Elevator

Is farm country’s tallest icon worthy of preservation? [read more ]

Following Black Elk’s Good Red Road

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

April 30

James "Scotty" Philip, the West River rancher who helped save the buffalo, was born today in 1858 in the highlands of Scotland. Philip emigrated to Kansas and eventually settled in Wyoming. After a brief stint mining gold in the Black Hills, Philip wandered from job to job before buying a small buffalo herd from Pete Dupree. Philip's herd grew to more than 1,000 buffalo, the largest in the world, on his pasture north of Fort Pierre. Following his death in 1911, Custer State Park purchased 36 head. The buffalo roaming the park today descend from Philip's herd.