Author : Linda M. Hasselstrom
Publisher : Mountain Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780878422623
This roadside history helps readers appreciate the roles that fur traders, homesteaders, politicians, ranchers, farmers, and even prairie artists have played in South Dakota's history.
Author : Linda M. Hasselstrom
Publisher : Mountain Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780878422364
Travels modern highways on a trip through the history of South Dakota, dividing the state into four regions, and providing information on varied landscapes, historic sites, notable people and significant events.
Author : Herbert Samuel Schell
Publisher :
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Rex Alan Smith
Publisher : WW Norton
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2011-10-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0789260085
The first book to tell the complete story of Rushmore. "I had seen the photographs and the drawings of this great work. And yet, until about ten minutes ago I had no conception of its magnitude, its permanent beauty and its importance." —Franklin Delano Roosevelt, upon first viewing Mount Rushmore, August 30, 1936 Now in paperback, The Carving of Mount Rushmore tells the complete story of the largest and certainly the most spectacular sculpture in existence. More than 60 black-and-white photographs offer unique views of this gargantuan effort, and author Rex Alan Smith—a man born and raised within sight of Rushmore—recounts with the sensitivity of a native son the ongoing struggles of sculptor Gutzon Borglum and his workers.
Author : Rex Alan Smith
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 1981-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803291201
The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies scattered along a stretch of more than a mile where they had been trying to flee. Of some 500 soldiers and scouts, about 30 were dead—some, probably, from their own crossfire. Wounded Knee has excited contradictory accounts and heated emotions. To answer whether it was a battle or a massacre, Rex Alan Smith goes further into the historical records and cultural traditions of the combatants than anyone has gone before. His work results in what Alvin Josephy Jr., editor of American Heritage, calls "the most definitive and unbiased" account of all, Moon of Popping Trees.
Author : Melba Porter Hay
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 37,84 MB
Release : 2002-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780916968298
Published by the Kentucky Historical Society and distributed by the University Press of Kentucky We have all spied them as we blast down I-75 scanning the roadside for anything of interest or rolled past one while trying to find an elusive gas station in an unfamiliar small town. Perhaps we have even stopped to read one outside the local courthouse. Since 1949, the Kentucky Historical Highway Marker program has erected more than 1,800 markers that highlight the rich diversity of the state's local and regional history as well as topics of statewide, and sometimes national, importance. They provide on-the-spot Kentucky history lessons, depicting subjects as diverse as a seven-year-old boy who served as a drummer in the Revolutionary War to a centuries-old sassafras tree. Roadside History is a key to the markers, enabling travelers to read Kentucky history without stopping to see each marker as they pass. There are two indexes arranged by subject and county.
Author : Bernie Hunhoff
Publisher : Insiders' Guide
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 2007-06
Category : Curiosities and wonders
ISBN : 9780762743360
This laugh-out-loud guide will introduce readers to the offbeat people, places, and events of the Mount Rushmore State.
Author : Eric Peterson
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 11,84 MB
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Automobile travel
ISBN : 9781412796057
Roadside Americana takes you on an armchair tour of some of the gaudiest, kitschiest, and weirdest wonders in the United States and Canada. The book explains the history of the roadside attraction and gives you an up-close look at hundreds of fascinating examples, including: • Solomon's Castle in Ona, Florida, a shiny 10,000-square-foot private residence and bed and breakfast constructed from recycled materials in the style of a mediaeval castle • W'eel, a 40-foot turtle in Dunseith, North Dakota, made from 2,000 tire rims • The Mitchell Corn Palace, a turreted "palace" in Mitchell, South Dakota, decorated with thousands of bushels of corn and other grains • The world's largest red wagon, Spokane Washington's 12-foot-high, 27-foot-long Radio Flyer that can hold 300 children • Elbe, Washington's Hobo Inn, a collection of seven old cabooses converted into motel rooms If you want to get a good look at the crazy and zany side of America, Roadside Americana is the perfect book for you.
Author : Lisa Meyers McClintick
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 12,48 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1493017454
Tired of the same old tourist traps? Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, let The Dakotas Off the Beaten Path show you a side of North and South Dakota you never knew existed. See the house Pa built during the annual Laura Ingalls Wilder Pageant in De Smet, South Dakota. Excavate mammoth bones in the Black Hills or spelunk in some of the world’s largest caves. Dance to Norwegian fiddles at North America’s largest Scandinavian festival, or lose yourself in the brilliant splendor of a powwow. So if you’ve “been there, done that” one too many times, get off the main road and venture Off the Beaten Path.
Author : Donovin Arleigh Sprague
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738534473
The Sicangu (burnt thighs) received their name when some of the Lakota peoples' legs were burned in a great prairie fire. The French later named them Brule, and two large groups of the band would be settled on two reservations, Rosebud and Lower Brule in South Dakota. Author Donovin Sprague examines the history of the Rosebud Sioux through a collection of photographs and personal family interviews.
