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Pasque Flowers Spring 2011
Photos by Terry Jordre. read more >>
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Can We Live With Asian Carp?
Voracious Asian carp are slowly invading South Dakota’s rivers and streams. read more >>
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Spink: Open For Business
To insiders in southeast South Dakota, the tiny “map spot” called Spink is a diamond in the rough. Here at South Dakota Magazine, we became fans of the town in the summer of 1992 when we spent a day there with Myrtle Twedt, then the town matriarch. read more >>
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No Gold In Those Hills
Photographer Paul Horsted of Custer sets the record straight about the myth of the 1874 Custer Expedition’s buried treasure. read more >>
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A Waterfall in Union County?
East Union Creek’s waterfall may be one of the prettiest sights in Union County, but it’s also one of the hardest to find. read more >>
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Langford Smithy Helped Build First Tractor
Norman Olson, a Langford native, writes to us from Colorado this week to tell us about Will Mann, a Day County homesteader and mechanic who helped build the world’s first successful gasoline-powered tractor. read more >>
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Slim’s Pickings
Even if you didn’t grow up on a ranch, Slim McNaught’s cowboy poetry is bound to make you crack a smile. We wrote about his CD Reminiscin‘ in our current issue. One of the tracks is called “Tom Cat Wreck.” It’s the story of how McNaught once got bucked off his horse when a cat… read more >>
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Traveling S.D.: 75 Years Ago
Interesting historical tidbits from a 1930s South Dakota guidebook. read more >>
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Historic Farm & Prairie Protected
Former South Dakota Magazine editor Jerry Wilson made news recently when he and his wife, Norma, donated a perpetual conservation easement on their 143 acre farm to the Northern Prairies Land Trust. read more >>
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Bygone Days On Your iPad
Perkins County rancher John Penor’s historic photos of Bison, South Dakota are now available as an iPad application. read more >>
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Peregrine Reintroduction in Rapid City
Many will remember Mar/Apr 2009’s feature on Jane Fink Cantwell. Cantwell is the director of Birds of Prey Northwest, an Idaho organization devoted to helping raptors. She brought 20 young ospreys to Lake Yankton in the summer of 2008 and kept a watchful eye over them until the reintroduction program ended in 2010. Cantwell is… read more >>
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Spring Has Sprung
We received these spring photos from readers Sandy and Wayne Freeman. read more >>