Hand-drawn map of Fort Randall in South Dakota |
Our South Dakota books begin with six volumes of South Dakota by the Department of History Collections in Brule County. Chapter One is a history of Brule County. That is followed by chapters on individuals and a variety of topics. Volume 23 published in 1947 has chapters on Ferries on the Big Sioux River, Hand County, and Newspapers of South Dakota. Each chapter is long – for example, the chapter on Father Christian Hoecken is forty pages, so unlike some of the autobiographical sketches our collection holds, these are quite substantive. These books are really packed with a lot of genealogical information and are something anyone with South Dakota roots needs to look at.
These five volumes are Dakota Territory and South Dakota |
We have five dense volumes titled History of Dakota Territoryby George W. Kingsbury, each with a San Francisco D.A.R. bookplate. They were published in 1915. The table of contents, 19 pages long is somewhat unique in that for each chapter there is a brief summary of the contents of the chapter. This set of books provides an excellent history of the state and is very well illustrated so is another tremendous resource.
This centennial book includes articles written by multiple authors |
Betsy Uven 1884 is one of the many biographies found in Historical Collections by Deuel |
Photos of Native Americans in one of our South Dakota books |
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